§ MR. BUCHANAN (Perthshire, E.)To ask the Secretary of State for India whether, before the Indian Budget comes on, he will issue to Members Papers containing the full proposals of Lord Kitchener as regards Army organisation in India, distinguishing those which have been adopted by the Government of India and those which are still under discussion, also correspondence that has passed on the subject between, the Government of India and the Secretary of State.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) I am not in a position to lay upon the Table the Papers asked for by the hon. Member for East Perth. Some of the proposals made by Lord Kitchener are still in an incomplete stage and the details are not of a character which it would he advantageous to disclose. In the discussion of the Financial Statement for 1905–6 in the Council of the Governor-General of India, the member in charge of the Military Department said with regard to this—" It will be understood that in questions affecting mobilisation the military authorities are unwilling to publish more detailes than is absolutely necessary, 856 and the members of this Council will not I am sure, press us for information which it would be undesirable to give."