§ SIR A. HAYTER (Walsall)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether it is the intention of the Government to deal with the Despatch received to-day from Lord Lansdowne, the Viceroy of India; and whether the India Office is going to modify the Madras and Bombay Armies Bill in conformity with the views expressed by the Viceroy?
*MR. G. RUSSELLI have had no opportunity of consulting the Secretary of State since the Despatch was received. The views of the Government of India will be carefully weighed, and I may add that they are in consonance with those favoured by the Secretary of State, who only consented rather reluctantly to an alteration in the Bill in order that it might pass through another place.