EXPENDITURE ON INDIAN TROOPS.

HC Deb 05 February 1900 vol 78 c576

MR. BUCHANAN

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether the whole of the expenses of the Indian troops in Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, and elsewhere outside the frontier of India, owing to the South African War, will be borne by the British Exchequer.

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

The whole of the expenses of the Indian troops in Mauritius, Ceylon, Singapore, and elsewhere outside the frontier of India will be debited to Imperial revenues.