§ MR. HANBURY (Preston)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Admiralty whether, on the occasion of the coming inspection of the Fleet, when the Admiral and other officers in command are to be presented to the German Emperor on board the Victoria and Albert, any officers have been nominated to represent either the Royal Marine Artillery or the Royal Marine Light Infantry, 4,700 men of which corps are at present embarked in the Fleet; and, if not, whether this omission to recognise the senior officers of the Marine Force is due to an inadvertence?
§ * LORD G. HAMILTONThe only officers who are to be presented to the German Emperor, on the occasion of his visiting the Fleet at Spithead on August 3rd, are those in command of ships present, who are of the rank of commander and upwards. It is the tradition and the practice both in the Navy and the Army for the officer in command of a ship or of a land force to represent in his individual person all the component parts of the force under his command, and I see no reason for departing on the present occasion from this practice.