HC Deb 10 October 1916 vol 86 c10
13. Mr. KING

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the offices of the Peace Society have recently been subjected to outrage and damage and that this has followed on articles in the Press inciting to direct violence against this society, which includes members of the Cabinet; and whether incitements in the Press of this kind will receive attention and editors will be suitably warned?

Mr. SAMUEL

I am informed that in August last a window at these offices was found by the police early one morning to have been broken and on two other mornings parts of the premises had been smeared with black or red paint or ink. If this is the "outrage" to which the hon. member refers, I have no evidence to connect it with any comments on the Peace Society which may have been made in the Press.