§ 134. Mr. Hoggasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether his attention has been drawn to the advertisement sponsored by the Government through commercial channels and in the newspaper of Lahore, and elsewhere, for the sale of rifles, shotguns, carbines, automatic weapons, machine guns, tommy guns, pistols, revolvers, small arms accessories, stores and components, bayonets, kukris, lances, swords, guns of various sizes, infantry supporting weapons, bomb and flame throwers, rockets and projectiles, small-arms ammunition, artillery, pyrotechnic, naval and infantry supporting ammunition, aerial bombs, civil and demolition explosives, etc.; and what is the explanation of the dissemination of these warlike supplies.
§ Mr. A. HendersonThe Government of India have informed me that the advertisement was issued in error, and that no weapons or ammunition in fact have been, or will be, sold to the public.