§ SIR W. WEDDERBURNI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for India whether the attention of the Secretary of State for India has been drawn to a complaint in the Indian Press that at Chupra, in Bengal, in a serai or rest-house endowed by a Jani Hindu, and placed at the disposal of the authorities as a matter of courtesy, cows were slaughtered by the authorities for European troops, and hung up by the side of the main road in view of Hindu 72 passers-by; whether cow-riot trials were then pending in the local Courts; and whether the Secretary of State will cause inquiry to be made?
MR. GEORGE RUSSELLThe Secretary of State is not aware that any such complaint has been made, but the question will be transmitted to India for such notice as the Government may find necessary.