§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether the troops, or any of them, on active service in the invasion of Tibet are provided with the dum-dum bullet, originally manufactured for the British Army in India, or any other bullet of an explosive character; and, if so, what explanation, if any, can be offered for the use of such bullets in the Tibetan Expedition, having regard to the undertaking against their use in the Boer War and the declaration signed by all the delegates of the European Powers, except the delegates of Great Britain, at the Hague Conference to abstain from the use of bullets which expand or flatten easily in the human body, such as bullets with a hard envelope which does not entirely cover the body or is pierced with incisions.
1370 (Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The Government of India have not informed me what ammunition is being used in Tibet, but I am making inquiry. No bullets used by the Indian Army or by the British Army in India are of an explosive character.