HC Deb 25 March 1908 vol 186 cc1403-4
THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIA (Mr. MORLEY,) Montrose Burghs

With your permission, Mr. Speaker, and the leave of the House, I should like to be allowed to correct a misreport, in a rather important matter, of some words that fell from me yesterday in answer to a Question put by my right hon. friend the Member for the Forest of Dean. As this report, I understand, occurs in most of the public prints, probably the fault was mine. I am made to say that we had decided to send out an envoy to Canada to consider the case of the Indians now in Vancouver. What I meant to say, and what, I think, I did say, was this—that I had the matter of these Indians under my very careful supervision, and that I am discussing it both with the Government of India and, in concert with the Colonial Office here, with an envoy deputed to this country by the Dominion Government, with the hope of ending, if possible, this extremely difficult and possibly dangerous situation.