§ Colonel WEDGWOOD(by Private Notice)asked the Secretary of State for India whether Motilal Nehru, Lajput Rai, C. R. Das, and some hundred other Indian political leaders have been 131 arrested, what sentences they have received, whether they are being treated as political prisoners or as common criminals, and whether, as it is the policy of His Majesty's Government to extend to India gradually self-governing institutions, he has taken any steps to secure that politicians whose help we may require in such self-government, are treated with no indignity?
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Montagu)I am expecting to receive at any moment a telegram from the Government of India about the prison treatment of political prisoners. I will then communicate with my hon. and gallant Friend.