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He therefore requested that the title of the Bill should be amended by substituting the words " prime emergency in the United Kingdom for the concluding word emergency,' and that the same substitution should be made for the word "emer- gency" in line 2 of clause 2(1).

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SIR MATTHEW NATHAN suggested that line 6 of clause 1 (1) should be amended to read as follows: "except where the information is furnished by an authority designated by the Admiralty or the Army Council, or has been submitted to and approved by such authority, or is." Also that in clause 1 (2) the word knowingly" should be omitted from line 4, and the words "knowing it to contain substituted for the word "containing" in line 5.

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MR. CHURCHILL informed the Sub-Committee that he would see Mr. Sydney Brooks before they met again, and would talk over the draft Bill with him. He thought that the Sub-Committee should make recommendations on three points :-

(1.) Regarding the form that the Bill should take.

(2.) Regarding the constitution of a joint Naval and Military Bureau.

(3.) Regarding the transmission of official information from the seat of war.

2, Whitehall Gardens,

June 17, 1910.

MINUTES OF THE 2ND MEETIng held at 2, WHITEHALL GARDENS, S.W., NOVEMBER 26, 1912.

Present:

Colonel the Right Hon. J. E. B. SEELY, D.S.O., M.P., Secretary of State for War (Chairman).

Viscount ESHER, G.C.B., G.C.V.O.

Sir EYRE CROWE, K.C.M.G., C.B., Assistant Under Secretary of State

for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. A. H. DENNIS, C.B., Assistant Solicitor to the Treasury.

Rear-Admiral E. C. T. TROUBRIDGE, C.B., C.M.G., M.V.O., Chief of the

War Staff, Admiralty.

Sir W. GRAHAM GREENE, K.C.B., Permanent Secretary, Admiralty. Brigadier-General D. HENDERSON, C.B., D.S.O., Director of Military

Training.

Lieutenant-Colonel G. M. W. MACDONOGH, General Staff.

Mr. R. H. BRADE, C.B., Assistant Secretary, War Office.

Captain M. P. A. HANKEY, C.B., Secretary.

THE CHAIRMAN explained that First Lord of the Admiralty was unable to be present. He invited Mr. Brade to make a statement as to any progress which might have been made in his negotiations with the Press since his memorandum* was written.

MR. BRADE said that the machinery described in his memorandum had, in the past fortnight, twice proved its value. Both the Admiralty and the War Office had ordered the acceleration of certain measures, and the Press had co-operated most satisfactorily in suppressing any mention of increased activity on the part of Government or other

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