Item 4 - Telegram from Edwin Montagu to Sir George Lloyd

Wishes to support him in any measure he finds it necessary to take. Points out that if deportation is to be resorted to as a punishment rather than a preventive, it could be deferred till after the restoration of order and might follow a possible inquiry. He feels sure that Lloyd has considered how far deportation, as a preventive, will assist and not postpone the restoration of order, and has considered sending for those he regards as being responsible and demanding good behaviour, or even assistance, under a threat of punitive action.

(Typed, with handwritten alterations. Used for transmission. The telegram was sent in error to Lord Chelmsford, and repeated to Lloyd on the 9th (cf. A2/4/1).)