§ MR. BRADLAUGH (Northampton)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that charges of alleged misuse of judicial and executive powers by British officers in Burmah have been published in many leading newspapers in India, and that Anglo-Indian papers as well as Indian papers join in asking the Government of India to make inquiries into such allegations; whether his attention has been called to the statement of the Times correspondent on Monday that incalculable mischief has been done by the feeling of despair and exasperation engendered amongst the people by the small villages being broken up, and that a general feeling of insecurity has been produced by apparently inoffensive people being transferred to distant and unhealthy districts on the ground of their alleged relationship to dacoits and, whether it is the intention of the Secretary of State for India to make any inquiry into such grave charges made on the responsibility of the Times?
SIR J. GORSTThe question is substantially the same as that put by the hon. Member on the 20th instant, to which the attention of the Government. of India has already been called.