§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can now say whether the troops, or any of them, on active service in the invasion of Tibet are provided with the Dum-Dum bullet, or any other bullet of an expansive 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.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The Government of India have informed me that no Dum-Dum ammunition has been used by the Tibet Mission escort, and that none is in the possession of that force.