London, May 23.
The new Treachery Bill, designed to suppress opposition to the Government's war policy and providing for the death penalty by hanging or shooting for spying and sabotage, was read for the third time in the House of Commons yesterday, and then sent to the House of Lords, which will pass it in all its stages today.
The Home Secretary, Sir John Anderson, explained that the Bill was designed to regularize the legal position and fill some possible loopholes in the existing emergen.y legislation. One important point was that it was thought desirable to make a provision to enable enemy aliers to be tried in suitable cases by courts-martial.
Any British subject or neutral alien, however, would retain the right to trial by jury.
Mr. George Morgan Garro-Jones, Labour member for the North division of Aberdeen, interposed with a question about enemy aliens who might possibly arrive in uniform.
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