§ MR. A. O'CONNORI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he proposes to lay upon the Table of the House the correspondence with the Indian Government relating to the employment of Indian forces in Africa and elsewhere beyond the external frontiers of India; and, if so, when?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAI do not know whether the Question of the honourable Member has reference to any particular occasion on which the Indian forces were employed in Africa or elsewhere beyond the Indian frontier. So far as I am aware, in each case when the Indian forces have been thus employed of late all the correspondence that could properly be published has been laid before Parliament. The general principle governing the expenditure connected with the employment of Indian troops beyond the external frontiers of India was laid down in the dispatch of the Secretary of State of June 30th, 1896, which formed part of a Parliamentary Blue Book.