Oral Answers to Questions — India: Disturbances, Karachi (Casualties).

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at on 20 March 1935.

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Photo of Mr Winston Churchill Mr Winston Churchill , Epping

Would my right hon. Friend say why it is that the Government of India, in dispersing these crowds of excited people, do not use lachrymatory gas capsules, such as used in America, instead of firing bullets, which pierce three or four bodies at the same time, and why humanity and common sense cannot lead to reform in the matter of dealing with crowds of this character?