§ MR. BEITH (Inverness, &c.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if any military reason exists for allotting the Highland Volunteer Artillery Field Battery, 16-pouuder guns, to Guildford with the Home and Western Counties (of England) Brigades, instead of to Boxhill with the Highland and Scotch Brigades, to which considerations of national affinity would assign it; and if, when opportunity occurs, it would be convenient to amend the Scheme of Mobilisation for Home Defence, Appendix L, by allotting the Highland Volunteer Battery to the same place of concentration as the Highland and Scotch Brigades?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Stirling, &c.)The reason for the Highland Volunteer Artillery being allotted to Guildford is that it is not required at Boxhill. If it was transferred to Boxhill it would cause the displacement of the Ayr and Galloway Volunteer Artillery, which forms part of the South of Scotland Brigade stationed at Boxhill.