§ Brigadier-General CROFTasked the Home Secretary whether his attention has been called to the speech of Mr. George Lansbury in Hyde Park on Sunday, 30th March, when he made statements suggesting that soldiers in the British Army should join their labour comrades and act here as the soldiers in the Russian Army had done; and what action, in view of this incitement to mutiny, he proposes to take?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe matter has been considered, but it has been decided that it would not be in the public interest to prosecute Mr. Lansbury for the speech in question.