HC Deb 14 December 1916 vol 88 c912W
Colonel YATE

asked the Secretary of State for India whether, considering that officers of the Indian Army of fifty-seven years of age and upward who have voluntarily undertaken work as censors have been deprived by the India Office of a portion of their Indian pay while so employed, the same deductions have been made from the pay of Indian civilians similarly employed as censors?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

I see little analogy between the cases of unemployed officers of the Indian Army and civil officers on the active list lent to the War Office for censorship duties during their leave. But the latter, in point of fact, receive from Indian revenues only their leave allowances, which are about half their full Indian pay.