London, May 5.
In the House of Commons to-day, the Home Secretary, Sir William! Joynson-Hicks, moving confirmation of the Emergency Powers Regulations, quoted declarations by the former Labour Prime Minister (Mr. Ramsay MacDonald) in 1924 in support of them, These declarations the Home Secretary remarked, wer: 'a very fair statement of the present Government's position.
The spanker explained that the regulations against incitement to mutiny and disaffection enabled summary action instead of a long trial. The police were authorized, to arrest without warrant, Another} regulation enabled search of any{ building suspected of printing or) issuing a document calculated to) cause mutiny or disaffection among the Crown forces, police or civilians for to impede or restrict measur for water, fud, light or other publi necessities, regulation gave but he said quite! in the interests of the pewer were at_present necessary.
The Home Secretary stated that, the services regarded as a vital necessity under one regulation, which empowered the Government call on the Crown forces to assist to carry on, included—electrcity,! maintenance of the electrical and, mechanical plant and machinery of} the Port of London, transport of, motor xpivit and. continuance of} railway services. He had already} made orders in respect of these, Hey proceeded to say that the condition the railways was improving. as} also that of the omnibus. services and that of the wiidereround railways.
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