HC Deb 10 July 1916 vol 84 c8
9. Major NEWMAN

asked the Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs whether he has been acquainted by our Legation at Washington of statements made in the United States of America that the military in this country have, by executing, imprisoning, and deporting thousands of Irishmen, left the families of these men without a breadwinner and that in consequence the impending harvest from lack of hands to gather it must be lost; and, if so, will he lay such reports before the House?

Lord R. CECIL

No such reports have been received, and the alleged statement is entirely untrue.

Major NEWMAN

Is it not a fact that statements to this effect have been published and printed in the "Times" newspaper actually bearing out the basis of my question?

Lord R. CECIL

I can only say that, so far as we are concerned, no such reports have been received.

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