The Gazette of India Delhi Saturday February 15 1919

His '11.r xcellency the Commander-in-Chief :—" My Lord I ask permission to lay on the table a copy of certain telegrams' received in reply to the message conveying the terms of the Resolution of thanks and congratlations to the Allied Armies adopted by the Indian Legislative Council on the 25th September 1918." HIS EXCELLENCY THE VICEROY'S - SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCTL SE [...] The necessity for proceeding with legislation on the subject in this Session is of course due to the early termination of hostilities and the prospect of the conclusion of peace in the near future. [...] ] [ The President.] While endeavouring to meet the wants of the armies in the field our supplying officers in India were daily confronted with the competing wants of the civil population in India and at the same time we had to restrict to the barest necessities the import into India of manufactured goods in order to free the energies of war workers in Allied countries. [...] Both the United Provinces War Journal and the Hag the organ of the Punjab Publicity Committee have disseminated war information far and wide and have created in the minds of thousands of our peasant-folk an interest in the larger world outside the circle of the village. [...] If so in what provinces and with what result ? (b) If the answer to the first part of (a) be in the affirmative will Goverment please lay upon the table a statement compiled up to date for the whole of British India giving figures for each province district by district showing the surplus quantity of food-grains available in the country for the use of the people and the period for which it