§ 29. Mr. KINGasked the Under-Secretary for India whether he can state, without injury to the required secrecy of pending military movements, the different portions of the Empire and places in the field of warfare in which troops of His Majesty's Indian Army are now stationed?
§ The UNDER-SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. C. Roberts)It is not to the public interest to give this information in any detail, but there are Indian troops in France, in Egypt, in British East Africa, and in the Persian Gulf. One regiment 318 was recently engaged at Tsingtau, and a brigade co-operated with the Navy in the reduction of the Turkish defences at Sheikh Saiad, opposite Perim.