§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India has given its consent to the proposal to charge the Indian Revenues with part of the cost of the maintenance of British troops in South Africa; and whether the correspondence that has passed on the subject will be laid upon the Table at an early date.
(Answered by Secretary Lord George Hamilton.) I am in communication with the Government of India upon the proposal to which the hon. Gentleman refers, but no decision has as yet been arrived at. Until the correspondence is complete I can 1137 give no opinion as to whether or not it can be published.