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Reference code
MONT II/A/3/13/1
Title
Telegram from Edwin Montagu to Sir George Lloyd
Date(s)
- 24 Nov. 1921 (Creation)
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(1879-1924)
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Has been advised that, in his instructions to the Commissioner of the Northern Division in connection with the situation in Surat, Lloyd has stated that, ‘if an announcement of civil disobedience is accompanied by incitements to violence or followed by acts of violence, immediate report should be made with a view to prosecution of principal offenders’. Asks why he has asked for a report before prosecuting.
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