§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether it is a fact that the Public Works Department has capped with a corrugated iron roof, painted and boarded up, and turned into a post office, a mosque at Bijapur, which "is perfect in structure and beautiful in decoration?"
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (Sir JAMES FERGUSSON) (Manchester, N.E.)(who replied) said: The Secretary of State knows nothing of the act of vandalism alleged by the hon. Member; but inquiries shall be made. I may 1617 add that when this mosque was turned into a post office, the greatest care was taken to preserve its architectural features.