§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELLasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether any and what effect has yet been given to the following paragraph in the Recruiting Regulations, and, if not, whether it is intended to give effect to the same:
Within such limits as may from time to time be prescribed, soldiers may, on the recommendation of their commanding officers, and with their own free assent, after three years' Army service, pass to the Reserve, and complete in that force the unexpired portion of their engagement.
MR. GATHORNE HARDY, in reply, said, the soldiers in the United Kingdom had already been allowed so to retire, but no application had been received from those on foreign service.