§ MR. J. M. ROBERTSONI beg to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India whether he has received during the last few weeks any information from India of the holding there of meetings and expressions in other ways of popular indignation at the treatment of British-Indians in the Transvaal and their imprisonment for declining to take out and carry on their persons registration certificates; and whether His Majesty's Government have taken or propose to take any action in the direction of remedying the grievances complained of.
§ MR. BUCHANANMany representations on this subject are being received from India, where marked feeling has been aroused. They have been communicated to the Colonial Office, who will be able to reply to the latter part of the hon. Member's Question.
§ MR. LUPTON (Lincolnshire, Sleaford)Has the hon. Gentleman come to the conclusion that as regards British India there is no specific advantage in belonging to the British Empire?
§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare, E.)None whatever.