§ 24. Mr. KINGasked the Secretary of State for War whether the helmets, firearms, and cannon employed by a body of men recently at Torquay, who used these implements of war to terrorise two Members of this House at an open-air meeting, are the property of the War Office; and, if so, whether it is intended to use the military equipment of our forces to prevent the delivery of political orations?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Colonel Seely)There is no official information to show that the armaments and equipment mentioned which are alleged to have been used to terrorise two Members of this House were the property of the War Office. The latter part of the question does not therefore arise.
§ Mr. KINGIs it not a very dangerous thing to have a lot of arms paraded about which do not belong to the War Office?