Colonel YATESasked the Under Secretary of State for India whether, seeing that the Central Persian telegraph line is far removed from the sea and cannot be protected by the force of Indian troops employed to operate from the ships on the Persian coast, the co-operation by land of a small force of Indian troops, to co-operate with and assist the Persian troops along the Baluchistan border to stop the gun-running bands of armed Afghans and to protect the Central Persian telegraph wires from damage, may be sanctioned by His Majesty's Government?
§ Mr. MONTAGUI have nothing to add to the answer which I gave the hon. Member on Tuesday last.