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With reference to your Secret despatch of the
10th. January, I have the honour to transmit for your inform-
ation Regulations which I have made relating to the collection
and communication of Naval and Military information, and to
the spreading of false or prejudicial reports.
2.
Owing to recent amendments of the Defence of the
Realm Regulations which were not known here when the original
draft was prepared, some alterations have been necessary. In Regulation 1 two paragraphs have been added which are taken from
an amendment of Regulation No. 18 of the Defence of the Realm
Regulations, while the former of these two paragraphs was altered
to comply with the instructions contained in your cypher telegram
of the 28th. December, 1916.
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3.
A new regulation has been substituted for the
original Regulation 2, which, but for two points, is a copy of
the latest form of the Defence of the Realn Regulations No. 27.
The two points of difference are both additions. One is
paragraph (e), which is taken from the Defence of India
(Criminal Law Amendment) Act 1915. The other is the addition
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RIGHT HONOURABLE
WALTER LONG, M. P.,
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