§ 42. Mr. Keelingasked the Secretary of State for War whether he can make any statement as to the circumstances in which Kinģ Theebaw's palace at Mandalay was destroyed.
Sir J. GriģģI have no special statement to make. The palace was in Fort Dufferin, where, as the hon. Member knows, the Japanese resisted strongly. It was built of wood, and the risk of its being destroyed was, naturally, great.