§ MR. C. P. B. MCLAREN (Leicester, Bosworth)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is now able to state how many officers and men of the British forces engaged in the Indian Frontier operations have died of their wounds or of sickness, in addition to the 499 stated by him to have been killed in action; and whether he can say if any considerable proportion of the wounds were probably inflicted by Dum-Dum bullets or other projectiles of English manufacture?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAThe total casualties from 10th June, 1897, to date are: Killed, including those who have died of wounds—British officers, 44; British non-commissioned officers and privates, 136; Native officers, 6; Native non-commissioned officers and privates, 320—total, 506. Wounded, not including those who have died of wounds—British officers, 93; British non-commissioned officers and privates, 404; Native officers, 36; Native non-commissioned officers and privates, 845;—total, 1,378. Died of disease: British officers, 10; British non-commissioned officers and privates, 250; Natives of all ranks, 220—total, 480. It is not possible to state how many of the casualties were caused by any particular kind of bullet.