§ SIR C. W. DILKE (Gloucester, Forest of Dean)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the Home Government have declined to sanction the proposals of the Government of India consequent upon the passing of the Madras and Bombay Commands Act, such for example as those for placing 141 Burma under Bengal, rather than leaving it under the officer commanding at Madras, and for placing Quetta under the Commander of the Punjab corps, instead of under the Commander at Bombay? In putting the question may I congratulate my right hon. Friend on his appointment as a Secretary of State.
§ * THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. H. H. FOWLER,) Wolverhampton, E.The Secretary of State in Council declined to sanction the most recent proposals of the Government of India on certain points: but as this matter is at the present moment the subject of correspondence with the Government of India I do not consider it advisable in the public interest to make any statement on the subject.