§ GENERAL FRASER (Lambeth, N.)asked the Secretary of State for War, Whether, in view of batteries of Horse Artillery being so difficult to construct, so impossible to improvise, and in the interests of the efficiency of Cavalry in the field, the Government will postpone the proposed abolition of five batteries of Horse Artillery, out of a Home strength of 13, until this House shall have had an opportunity of discussing the whole question?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE (Mr. E. STANHOPE) (Lincolnshire, Horncastle)I am afraid that to give any such undertaking as that asked for by my hon. and gallant Friend would be to transfer to the House of Commons a responsibility which must be borne by myself. But, as the Army Estimates will be brought forward in a very few days, my hon. and gallant Friend will have full opportunity of raising this question at a time when he has before him all the reasons for this conversion.