§ MR. KING (Hull, Central)asked the Under Secretary of State for India, Whether it is true that special allowances were granted to two military officers—namely, Lieutenant Colonel J. Brown, R.E., Engineer in Chief of the Sind Pishin State Railway, and Major T. Gracey, R.E., Superintendent Engineer, Burmah, while civil engineers assigned to similar duties in the same districts were refused the same privilege; if so, under what circumstances, and on what grounds, the distinction was made?
§ THE UNDER SECRETARY of STATE (Sir JOHN GORST) (Chatham)The Secretary of State has no information of any such allowances having been made to the officers mentioned in the Question.