§ Mr. CHARLES BATHURSTasked the Under-Secretary of State for India whether any steps are being taken by the India Office to accelerate the dispatch of the promised further Report from the Government of India in reference to the imprisonment of Mr. William Channing Arnold, editor of the "Burma Critic"; and whether there is any reason why he should not forthwith be released on bail pending the receipt of such Report and the arrival in this country of Mr. Arnold's legal adviser?
Mr. BAKERThe Secretary of State has made it clear to the Indian authorities that the matter should be expedited as far as possible. In regard to the second part of the question, the Secretary of State is advised that, as the Government advocate has declined to certify misdirection in the Chief Justice's summing up, there is no provision in law to enable the Chief Court to entertain an application for Mr. Arnold's release on bail.