§ Major POLEasked the Secretary of State for India whether he will give particulars in respect of the action of the authorities in the Bhagalpore District of Bihar and Orissa in seizing the camp erected by the volunteers of the Indian National Congress and used by them as a drill centre; and if he will state the powers under which this action of the local authorities was taken?
§ Mr. BENNMy knowledge of the incident is confined to the report in the Gov- 1611W ernment of India's appreciation of the situation which I circulated on 23rd June.