Part of Oral Answers to Questions — India. – in the House of Commons at on 8 December 1920.
Mr Edwin Montagu
, Cambridgeshire
My hon. and gallant Friend shows by his question that he is aware of the general prohibition contained in the Rule. As regards its application to the Dyer fund, I presume that the Government of India issued their instructions in response to a request for orders. I do not know whether similar action was thought necessary in the case of the other funds mentioned, as to which I have had no particulars.