§ MR. NICOLLsaid, he desired to ask the Secretary of State for War if the advantages of the Overland Route as a means of transport for Her Majesty's Troops, as described in the recent Report of the Select Committee, will induce the Government to forward Indian reinforcements by that route during the colder months of the year, and as would be consistent with the opinion given to that effect by the Military Authorities in Egypt?
GENERAL PEELsaid, that it was the intention of Her Majesty's Government to adopt the Overland Route in cases of urgency or necessity; but he trusted that better arrangements would be made than on previous occasions, so as to obviate the necessity of sending the heavy baggage 1701 round by the Cape, although the regiment itself went across Egypt and down the Red Sea.