HC Deb 22 March 1900 vol 81 cc33-4
MR: LLOYD-GEORGE (Carnarvon)

I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether he can now state why a cablegram sent on the 14th February last by Mr. Mackarness, chairman of the South Africa Conciliation Committee, to the South African News, Cape Town, recording a resolution passed at a Liberal Conference in London, was stopped by the Government Censor at Cape Town; and why no notice of its having been stopped was given for more than a fortnight to the sender.

MR. WYNDHAM

The military authorities at Cape Town have full discretion to censor any telegram, and there is no intention to interfere with their exercise of that discretion.