§ 8 and 9. Mr. CAMPBELLasked the Secretary of State for India (1) if, at the commencement of the recent Afghan campaign there was supposed to be a hutment camp at Kacha Gashi with sufficient accommodation for divisional headquarters, certain units, and a remount depot built some years ago, whereas there was found to be nothing but a bare plain, one hut, and drinking troughs: and whether the entire staff of a brigade who were stationed in tents at Kacha Gashi later were sent to hospital suffering from heat-stroke partly due to the absence of huts;
(2) whether he will explain why the machines and equipment of a unit of the Air Force sent from overseas to supply the urgent need of up-to-date aeroplanes on the North-West Frontier were left in a siding at Delhi and lost for a fortnight?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI will make inquiry.