Yesterday it appears police raided the ILP office in London and the Labour Press + Leader office in Manchester seizing a vast quantity of literature. Labour Leader too appears this morning censored – the first case of its kind in this country under the Defence of the Realm Act.

19 August 1915. Diary entry of John Bruce Glasier, socialist and pacifist [Glasier Papers GP2/1/22]. This week’s war: 55.