§ SIR H. COTTONI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether the Bengal Government has sent out a circular notice to various Indian newspapers in Calcutta warning them that to re-publish incriminating articles in a sedition trial is spreading disaffection and will render them liable to prosecution for sedition, even if such re-publication be a true report of the proceedings in the trial; and whether a similar notice has been served on Anglo-Indian newspapers which are in the habit of reproducing day by day the text of the articles upon which charges for sedition are being based.
§ MR. BUCHANANThe Secretary of State has no official information on the subject, but he will inquire.
§ SIR H. COTTONI shall be happy to supply the hon. Gentleman with information.