Item 2 - Telegram from Lord Reading to Edwin Montagu

Identity area

Reference code

MONT II/A/3/12/2

Title

Telegram from Lord Reading to Edwin Montagu

Date(s)

  • 8 Nov. 1921 (Creation)

Level of description

Item

Context area

Name of creator

Content and structure area

Scope and content

Treating certain offenders as ‘first-class misdemeanants’ would induce non-co-operationists to go to prison. However, he has privately instructed the prison authorities to moderate the Ali brothers’ physical hardships.

(Typed.)

Access points