SIR HENRY FLETCHERasked the Judge Advocate General, If he will state to the House, or lay a Return upon the Table, of the number of men of the Army Reserve who have been tried and convicted of fraudulent enlistment between the 1st July 1880 and 30th June 1882?
§ THE JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL (Mr. OSBORNE MORGAN)Sir, there will be no objection whatever to this Return being given. I am sorry I cannot state the exact numbers at once; but the cases referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend—which are not, technically speaking, cases of fraudulent enlistment; but cases of false answers on enlistment punishable under the 33rd section of the Army Act—are not classed under a separate heading in my Office, and it will take some time to eliminate them.