§ Mr. KEIR HARDIEasked the Under-Secretary for India whether he is aware that a Report sent out by Reuter's Agency on 6th April, and which appeared widely in the public Press, declaring that quantities of arms, picric acid, dynamite, and means for making bombs, had been discovered at the house of Anada Mohan Roy, a wealthy zemindar of Calcutta, and that the said Report has since been admitted to have been groundless; and whether, as this same agency makes it a practice to circulate misleading reports creating the impression that the people of India are given to lawlessness and political crime, and that these are a cause of irritation which may lead to disaffection with British rule, he will recommend the Government of India to apply the provisions of the Indian Press Law to this agency, or take other effective measures to put an end to the distribution of the continual misrepresentation of the people of India of which Reuter's Agency is guilty?
§ Mr. MONTAGUAs regards the first-part of the question a Reuter's telegram of the 7th April corrected a statement reproduced by them on the 5th from the "Indian Daily News." The reply to the second part of the question is in the negative, but the culpability of circulating 485 alarmist news based on inaccurate information is evident.