HC Deb 19 October 1899 vol 77 c235
MR. J. H. ROBERTS (Denbighshire, W.)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he will state whether any action has been taken by the Colonel of the Royal West Kent Regiment, or by the military authorities in India, with regard to the expulsion from that regiment of the men implicated in the outrage upon a respectable Burmese woman, named Mah Goon, at Rangoon.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FORINDIA (Lord G. HAMILTON,) Middlesex, Ealing

The failure to detect the perpetrators of this outrage is receiving the most careful attention and consideration of the Government of India and of the Commander-in-Chief, and the disciplinary measures decided upon will shortly be announced.

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)

Is this regiment still stationed at Rangoon?

LORD G. HAMILTON

I think it is, but it is under orders for Aden.

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

The sooner it leaves Rangoon the better.