HOUSE OF COMMONS.
INDEMNITY BILL. AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABLE ASSOCIATION. LONDON. .May 28. Mr Lloyd George in continuing the debate on the Indemnity Bill, .-aid that so far as legality was concerned, the Homo Secretary did everything they could exited a Minister to do to make it clear to himself that- he was acting well within tb>- law.
Air Lloyd George regretted that the Government had not seen their wav to adjourn the discussion on the Bill until there had been a decision given in the Courts. Tt was not a Bill to indemnify the Minister, hut a Bill to deprive those \vho were illegally deported, of any rights. He suggested that the Government should add a. clause allowing these people to put forward their claims, and set up a tribunal to settle them. LONDON. Afay 28.
.Air Lloyd George, continuing, said that if the appeal had come from Canada. Australia, New Zealand or South Africa, we should have been hound to take stern action, and doubtless the House of Commons would have been only too pleased to give the government tho powers necessary io cope wit.i a conspiracy, but it would have been very serious if British people were deported to the Dominions. That was a precedent which should never have been set upon. . , , Lord Robert Cecil replied to tin- debate and said the Government had no desire to reverse the decision of the Court of Appeal, and was strongly ol the opinion that the country ought to ,-id itself of the war legnlatiou as soon as possible. The Government, he claimed, desired to secure for those who had suffered illegal detention, any damages which they were entitled to recover in an ordinary court of law. He was quite ready to put a clause in tho piesent Bill which would make that clear. (Cheers.)
Hr McCurdy intimated that the National Libera is accepted Lord Cecil’s pledge, and they would support the second reading.
Mr MacDonald’s amendment was rejected and the Bill was read a second time.
BILL BEAD. LONDON, May 23. Tile House of Commons read the Indemnity Bill io the Irish deportees bv 21 >7 votes to 1 13.
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