§ CAPTAIN SINCLAIR (Forfarshire)On behalf of the hon. Member for the Rushcliffe Division of Nottinghamshire, I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether, having regard to the fact that minutes from the Prime Minister and Governor of Natal and Generals Murray and Buller, respecting the censorship in that colony of letters and telegrams, have been made public at the request of those who wrote them, he will now lay upon the Table any documents which have been issued by the Government, or those responsible in South Africa, prescribing or dealing in any way with the manner in which the censorship of telegrams or letters should be carried out in South Africa or elsewhere.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURIf this question refers, as I presume it does, to the censorship over Press communications, as far as I know there are no documents, the whole responsibility resting with the generals in South Africa.
§ CAPTAIN SINCLAIRThe question refers to the censorship of letters and telegrams, not solely to the censorship of documents.
§ MR. A. J. BALFOUROf course, with regard to foreign telegrams and relations with foreign countries, no doubt there are documents, and we have no objection to publishing anything that has been published in Natal or anything that has been made public through the international bureau at Berne.