HC Deb 30 July 1897 vol 51 c1603
MR. HERBERT ROBERTS

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he has any further information as to the destruction by the recent earthquake of the property of the Welsh Presbyterian Foreign Mission Society in the Khasia and Jaintia Hills, and in Sylhet?

THE SECRETARY OP STATE FOR INDIA (Lord GEORGE HAMILTON,) Middlesex, Ealing

I regret to say that very serious damage has been done in Sylhet; but as regards the particular property mentioned in the Question I have as yet received no information.