§ MR. JOHN ELLIS (Nottinghamshire, Rushcliffe)To ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any system of censorship is now being applied in the Transvaal to private letters or telegrams with in that district, or as regards the mails and telegraphic service to or from the territory and other parts of South Africa or elsewhere; and, if so, under what authority it is exercised, and who is the official responsible for such censorship.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Lyttelton.) No system of censorship exists in the Transvaal. The hon. Member refers possibly to the legislation which formed the subject of a reply by my predecessor to a Question on 29th April last, and I am making inquiry of the Governor with regard to the proposed amendment of the Ordinance.