§ MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid)I beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Government of India have made any request for legislative authority to repressive measures being taken against incitements to violence appearing in a certain class of native newspapers; and whether His Majesty's Government intend to give the Indian Government a free hand in this matter.
§ MR. BUCHANANThe Government of India have submitted no recent proposals for the purpose mentioned in the Question. The Secretary of State is unable to make any statement as to the course which he may think it right to adopt if any such proposals are received.
§ MR. LONSDALEI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India 238 whether the Secretary of State will have laid upon the Table of the House translations of articles inciting to violence which have appeared in the Indian vernacular Press recently.
§ MR. BUCHANANThe Secretary of State does not consider that any useful purpose would be served by giving greater publicity to the articles to which the hon. Member refers.
§ MR. J. DEVLIN: (Belfast, W.)Are there any "carrion crows" in India?
[No Answer was returned.]