HC Deb 24 March 1920 vol 127 cc386-7
10. Colonel YATE

asked whether Mohammed Ali, who has arrived in England as a member of the Indian Khalifat deputation, is the same Mohammed Ali mentioned in paragraph 164 of the Report of the committee appointed to investigate revolutionary conspiracies in India as concerned in the project hatched in India with the object of destroying British rule by means of an attack on the North-West frontier supplemented by a Mahomedan rising in India itself; whether it was for this reason that he was interned; and, if not, for participation in what conspiracy was he interned?

Mr. FISHER

The individual mentioned in paragraph 164 of the Report cited in the question is not the Mohammed Ali who is now in England as a member of the Khalifat deputation. The latter was interned during the War for conduct tending to promote the interests of His Majesty's enemies.