HC Deb 13 December 1911 vol 32 c2378
Captain MURRAY

I desire to ask the Under-Secretary of State for India a question of which I have given him private notice—whether his attention has been drawn to a newspaper rumour to the effect that a Durbar official in India has been murdered, and whether he has any information to give to the House on that point?

Mr. MONTAGU

My attention has been called to a poster and a paragraph, but I am glad to be able to say that there is no foundation for it. I regret to say, however, that a police inspector, according to a newspaper telegram, was murdered in Eastern Bengal yesterday. The telegram arrived from a newspaper correspondent who addressed it from the Durbar Camp. That is probably the explanation.

Captain MURRAY

Has the hon. Member any official information of this murder?

Mr. MONTAGU

None, except from the newspapers this morning.

Sir W. BYLES

Which enterprising newspaper is this?