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, EalingThe 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. HAMILTONI think it is, but it is under orders for Aden.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLThe sooner it leaves Rangoon the better.