HC Deb 13 November 1884 vol 293 c1587
MR. MACFARLANE

asked the Under-Secretary of State for India, If his attention has been called to the disclosure of the contents of a Report upon the Central Asian frontier question in certain newspapers, and if he can state by whom the Report in question was made; if it was of a confidential character; and, what steps the Government propose to take to punish the offender?

MR. J. K. CROSS

I must ask the hon. Member for Carlow not to press for any answer to his Question until the communications now passing between the Government of India and the Secretary of State are complete. A certain Memorandum has been made public purporting to have been written by the Quartermaster General of India; but I cannot go into the matter referred to in the Question.