§ Mr. GINNELLasked the Prime Minister whether the Government still allege that the censorship is administered uniformly and impartially throughout Great Britain and Ireland; and will he explain why the resolutions of the Leeds Conference, freely published in this country, hailing with satisfaction the declaration of foreign policy and the war aims of the Russian Provisional Government, and pledging themselves to work for an agreement with the International Democracies for the re-establishment of a general peace which shall not tend towards either domination by or over any nation, or the seizure of their national possessions, or the violent usurpation of their territories,, and calling upon the Government of Great Britain to place itself in accord with the democracy of Russia by proclaiming its adherence to and determination to carry into immediate effect a charter of liberties establishing complete political rights for all men and women, unrestricted freedom of the Press, freedom of speech, a general amnesty for all political and religious prisoners, full rights of industrial and political association, and the release of labour from all forms of compulsion and restraint, have been prevented by the Censor from appearing in the paper called "New Ireland"?
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§ Mr. DUKEThe resolution in question was, I am told, embodied in an article which was considered to infringe the Defence of the Realm Regulations.