§ MR. O'GRADYI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he is aware of the statements published in the Eastern Bengal and Assam Era, an Anglo-Indian journal published at Dacca, attributing the Goalundo and Mozufferpore outrages to the meetings of the Indian congresses, and advocating the arrest and flogging of the congress leaders; whether he is also aware that this journal also advocated the public flogging of Mr. G. B. Arundale, headmaster of the Hindu College at Benares, and those who sympathised with him, because he had presided at a meeting which closed with the 565 cry of Bande Mataram; and, if so, will the clause of the Indian Penal Code dealing with writings that create hatred be applied to the Eastern Bengal and Assam Era, as to other journals recently suppressed under the terms of the Code.
§ MR. BUCHANANThe Secretary of State has not seen the statements referred to. The provisions of the Penal Code apply in the same way to the paper mentioned as to all other publications, and would be enforced under the same conditions.