§ 5 and 6. Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Secretary of State for India (1) whether he will give a return showing the number of political prisoners at present in prison or interned in India; in what gaols and in what category they are confined;
(2) whether his attention has been drawn to the restriction on the rights of travel inflicted upon Indians in the mandated territory of Tanganyika; "whether the removal of the ban was effected on his representations; and whether he has asked for disciplinary action against the official guilty of making these invidious distinctions?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI would refer the hon. and gallant Member to the answers given to him on the 22nd. Those answers appeared in the OFFICIAL REPORT of that date.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODWill the right hon. Gentleman make inquiries and supply the returns that are asked for, and, in particular, say whether it is not a fact that Sir George Lloyd, in Bombay, managed to do without the imprisonment of these particular persons?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI shall be happy to make inquiries to get my hon. and gallant Friend any information which he requires.
§ Colonel WEDGWOODI want to know the number of political arrests in each of the major provinces.
§ Mr. MONTAGUImmediately an attempt is made to get the information, there is always a difficulty in describing exactly what are "political arrests."
§ Colonel WEDGWOODI think that the right hon. Gentleman knows what are political arrests.