HC Deb 28 January 1930 vol 234 cc887-8W
Major POLE

asked the Secretary of State for India on what occasions, if any, during each of the last 12 years civil authorities in India have exercised their right to call upon the military to aid the civil power where civil disorders have been too serious to be dealt with by the ordinary police?

Mr. BENN

I cannot give figures for 1918–1920 without further notice; during the last two of these three years troops were requisitioned frequently. The following are the figures for the subsequent years, and include cases in which troops were held in readiness at the request of the civil authorities without actually being requisitioned:

Occasions.
1921 … … … … 45
1922 … … … … 111
1923 … … … … 40
1924 … … … … 63
1925 … … … … 27
1926 … … … … 69
1927 … … … … 88
1928 … … … … 38
1929 … … … … 32

cannot at present make any statement in regard to the last part of the question.