§ 6. Sir J. D. REESasked the Secretary of State for India whether he knows any thing of a person described in the German Press as the Indian Prince Mahendra Prato, who is said to have represented himself as an agent of the King of Afghanistan?
Mr. FISHERThe person described as an "Indian Price" is doubtless Mohendranath Pratap, the individual mentioned by my right hon. Friend the late Secretary of State for India, in a statement made to the House on the 29th November, 1916, as having been sent to Afghanistan by the German Government. This individual has no claim whatever to the title of "Prince," being merely a small landowner from a British district in the United Provinces. His estates were attached by the Government of India in 1916.