§ MR. O'GRADYI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether, with a view co preventing alarmist telegrams being sent to the Press in this country, and of the effect such telegrams are creating as to the present state of order in India, he will give instructions that the same regulations as issued in the case of certain of the native Press shall apply to the correspondents referred to.
§ MR. MORLEYI am not aware that any regulations have been issued to the native Press. But the Government of India have warned the public of their intention to enforce the ordinary law relating to seditious publications in India. There is no Indian law or regulation that enables me to exercise a censorship over the telegrams sent to this country.
§ MR. O'GRADYIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the correspondents mentioned in this Question are those of Reuter's, The Times, and the Daily Mail? In view of the telegrams being based on the flimsiest of evidence, and upon the most insignificant facts, and the effect they have in India, can the right hon. Gentleman not take steps to censure both the correspondents and the papers in question.
§ MR. MORLEYNobody will recognise more freely than my hon. friend that this is very delicate ground. It is practically impossible for me or the Government 1346 of India to dictate to newspapers what telegrams they shall or shall not publish.