INDIAN SEDITION BILL.
REMARKS BY THE VICEROY. Bj Telegraph.— Press Associations-Copyright. LONDON, 12th December. During discussion by the Viceroy's Council of the Sedition Bill, .which was | passed, Lord Minto, the Viceroy, emphasised the fact that personal and public security was dangerously threatened and stern measures were called for to terminate apprehensions of hidden danger which were crippling the daily life of the people. He appealed to the good sense of the community to co-operate ' with the authorities so as to ensure order and security, thus enabling the authorities to turn their attention to the reforms projected by Lord Morley, Secretary of State for India. Tho Bill provides for a special tribunal of three High Court judges to try persous charged with seditious and an= archist offences, and authorising the im- ( prisonment of members of dangerous societies.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 141, 14 December 1908, Page 7
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