§ MR. ERRINGTONasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether he thinks it necessary to insist on calling the territorial Regiment formed from the 67th Brigade Depot the Prince of Wales' Royal Canadian Regiment, consisting as it does of five Regiments of Irish Militia, and of the 100th and 109th Regiments, in not one of which is there now a single Canadian; and, whether he will consider the recommendation of Colonel Stanley's Committee, that the Regiment should be called the Prince of Wales' Royal Leinster Regiment, and be made Fusiliers, if the Militia Regiments are no longer to remain Rifles?
§ MR. CHILDERSSir, in reply to my hon. Friend, I may say that in settling the titles of the new territorial regiments we are most anxious to minimize changes, but at the same time to meet local objections; and it is impossible to deny that the title "Royal Canadian" of a purely Irish regiment refers rather to the past than to the present state of things. We are at this moment in communication with those interested.