§ 3. Major-General Sir ALFRED KNOXasked the Secretary of State for India if he will provide for the House of Commons Library copies of the original reports, prepared last year, on the terrorist movement by the Inspector-General of Police of Bengal and the Commissioner of Police of Calcutta?
§ Mr. BUTLERI do not know to what reports my hon. and gallant Friend is referring, but if he will give me further particulars I will inquire of the Government of India whether copies could suitably be placed in the Library.
§ Sir A. KNOXIs it not a fact that the Joint Select Committee asked for reports from these officials regarding terrorism in Bengal, and that the reports, as originally produced, were not laid before the Committee, but that an expurgated edition, prepared by one of the Secretaries of the Governor of Bengal, was put before the Committee?
§ Mr. BUTLERI cannot accept the version of affairs referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend. As regards matters 9 which have been considered by the Joint Select Committee, he must realise better than anybody that they are sub judice at the present moment.