§ MR. RENTOUL (Down, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that at the recent Staff College examination there was a striking change, of which no notice had been given, in the nature and scope of the mathematical examination; and whether steps will be taken to prevent any of the officers who were candidates at the examination being disqualified in consequence of this unusual procedure?
§ * MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThere is a new examiner; but no change was intended in the nature and scope of the examination. Possibly the new examiner may have set some harder questions than his predecessor did; but they are within the same range of subject, and as the examination is competitive the difficulty of the questions is not a disadvantage.