§ MR. WEIR (Ross and Cromarty)To ask the First Lord of the Treasury, seeing that the expedition to Tibet was determined on partly through Imperial interests and not in the interests of India solely, will the Government consider the expediency of charging the Imperial Exchequer with part of its cost.
(Answered by Mr. A. J. Balfour.) On l3th July, 1904, † the Secretary of State for India informed the hon. Member for West Denbighshire that the Tibetan question was essentially an Indian interest. Under these circumstances it seems neither just nor expedient that the expenditure should fall upon the British Exchequer.
† See (4) Debates, cxxxvii., 1467.