Item 8 - Telegram from Lord Chelmsford to Edwin Montagu

The Home Department are sending summaries of the draft manual of martial law instructions and the draft resolution on the Hunter Report. The main amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure had to be postponed owing to the war, but definite questions as to forfeiture of property and whipping have now been referred to Local Governments, as has the question of substituting a special form of imprisonment for political offenders.

(Typed, with brief handwritten notes by Montagu and Sir William Duke.)