SIR MANCHERJEE BHOWNAG GREE () Bethnal Green, N. E.I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the Report, which he promised in reply to a question last Tuesday to call for by telegraph from Her Majesty's Consul at Lorenzo Marques, regarding the ill-treatment of a number of British Indian refugees from the Transvaal by the Portuguese military authorities, and their compulsory deportation to India instead of to their homes in Natal, has been received; and, if so, will he state the contents of the Report.
§ *MR. BRODRICKThe telegram has been received. Her Majesty's Consul reports the Indian refugees lived in a camp while waiting for the steamers to take them away. The camp was necessarily guarded by Portuguese soldiers. A person employed by the relief committee lived for some time in the camp, but reported no case of abuse. The Indians were sent to their declared homes, and none who were Natalians were sent to India. Her Majesty's Consul adds that no case of proved robbery or abuse was reported to him.