§ COLONEL MAKINSasked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, having regard to the fact that flogging in the Army has been abolished, Militia subalterns and members of Volunteer corps, who may be students at Eton and other public schools, can be subjected to the personal castigation which forms a part of the primitive discipline of these institutions; and, whether he has reason to apprehend any conflict of authority on this point between the Commander-in-Chief and the head masters or governing bodies of such schools? The hon. and gallant Member explained that the word "primitive" was a misprint for "punitive," adding that the adjectives were not contradictory.
§ MR. CHILDERSI suppose the hon. and gallant Gentleman has in view the famous case of Dr. Keate, who boasted that he had flogged the highest officers in the Army. I do not anticipate that there will be any such conflict as is anticipated in the conclusion of the Question if Eton boys who happened to be members of Auxiliary Corps are birched.