The Gazette of India Simla Saturday October 4 1919

This measure my Lord has been the suject of so much discussion both in the Press and by other competent authorities that I think I ought to set out to the Council in some detail the reasons that have led the Government to introduce the Bill at this moment and to explain seriatim the effect of at any rate the more important clauses of (the Bill ; and I will ask Hon'ble Members to listen to m [...] Now why this anxiety to keep the outside world in the dark as to the happenings at Lahore on the 10th 9 Therefore the public outside Lahore we had to rely on the Government Communiques and the accounts given in the Anglo-Indian press for the events that took place at Lahore and other places on the 10th. [...] The police accompanying the march under the orders of the District Magistrate dispersed the crowd two being killed and as many were Wounded.' " And the ' Civil and Military Gazette 'on the 13th says The rendezvous for the march of troops and police through the Lahore city was the cross roads outside the railway station at 9-15 A.m. [...] And this Bill is based upon the assumption that the order was legal because it is stated in the Bill that anything done between the 30th of March and the date of the passing of this Bill will be protected. [...] We must wait for the finding of the Committee we must wait for the decision of the.Privy Council on the questions raised as to the legality of the promulgation of martial law and the giving of retrospective effect to it.