§ MR. BRUNNER (Cheshire, Northwich)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the notice to quit served on Mr. Joseph Knowles, of Yew Tree Farm, Appleton, Cheshire, by his landlord, Colonel Piers Egerton Warburton, by reason of the former's refusal to serve, personally, in the Arley Troop of the Earl of Chester's Yeomanry Cavalry, though sending a substitute; and whether such method of recruiting the Yeomanry is sanctioned by the War Office?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI have no knowledge of this case except through paragraphs in newspapers. The Secretary of State for War has no concern with the particular conditions enforced by a landlord in an agricultural lease. But I can imagine nothing more unfavourable to the interests of the Yeomanry Force than the existence of a burdensome provision such as is described.