§ *SIR CHARLES DILKEI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can state the composition of the force to be stationed at Abazai or its neighbourhood.
§ MR. CHARLES HOBHOUSEAbazai is a village with a small fort twenty-four miles north of Peshawar City. Its nominal garrison is a company of native infantry and fifty cavalry. The last returns show seventy-three infantry and fifty-one cavalry present.
§ *SIR CHARLES DILKEIs there any immediate intention of putting a larger force there?
§ MR. CHARLES HOBHOUSENot so far as I am aware at present.