MR. LLOYD MORGANOn behalf of the hon. Member for the Gainsborough Division of Lincolnshire, I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as represent- 438 ing the Postmaster General, whether any censorship is exercised with regard to such outgoing telegrams from England to Africa as may be likely, directly or indirectly, to carry information to the enemy.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HANBURY,) PrestonUnder Article 8 of the International Telegraph Convention each Government reserves to itself the power to suspend wholly or in part the service of international telegraphs upon condition that it immediately advises each of the other Governments party to the convention. Notices have been issued under this article suspending code or cipher telegrams, and applying the censure to other telegrams from or to Zanzibar, Seychelles, Mauritius, Madagascar, British East Africa, German East Africa, Mozambique, Delagoa Bay, Rhodesia, British Central Africa, Orange Free State, Transvaal, Cape Colony and Natal. All such telegrams have to pass the censor either at Aden or at Cape Town.