Mr. SHIRLEY BENNasked the Under-Secretary for War if Mr. Dyson was detained from the 27th to the 31st March without being brought before a justice of the peace; and if he will explain the reason for the abrogation of the ordinary protection to the liberty of the British subject?
§ Mr. TENNANTMr. Dyson was arrested on the 27th March and was detained until the 29th March by the competent military authority to enable the formalities prescribed in such cases by Regulations 56 of the Defence of the Realm Consolidated Regulations to be fulfilled. The case was reported on the 30th March to the Director of Public Prosecutions, who, on the 31st March, caused Mr. Dyson to be taken before the Portland magistrates. I am advised that the existing law having been complied with, there has been no improper abrogation of the safeguards applicable in such a case.