§ 48. Mr. HOLMESasked the Prime Minister whether the Report by Lord Kitchener on the supply of shrapnel and high explosive shells in September and October, 1914, can be issued as a Parliamentary Paper?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWI do not think it would be wise to take the action suggested in the question. The publication by the Government of isolated documents would not, I am sure, be desirable.
§ Mr. HOLMESDoes the right hon. Gentleman suggest that the publication of this Report would now be detrimental to the public interest?
§ Mr. BONAR LAWNo; the reason I gave for not publishing it—and I think the House will agree—is that to publish one set of the correspondence, and to leave out everything else, would be quite impossible.