§ COLONEL HUGHES - HALLETT (Rochester)asked the First Lord of the Treasury, Whether he will take into serious consideration the advisability of prohibiting for a time the export of horses from this country, at all events 483 until the requirements of the Artillery and Cavalry are fully satisfied?
§ THE FIRST LORD (Mr. W. H. SMITH) (Strand, Westminster)The Government do not consider that it would be advisable to prohibit, at the present time, the export of horses from this country. They have no reason to believe either that the present exportation has assumed serious dimensions, or that the Army is short of its authorized establishment of horses.