COLONEL LOCKWOODI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War will he explain why Staff Officers and Umpires employed at the Autumn Manaeuvres last year received no allowance or travelling expenses; and is he aware that, in consequence, many officers who would have been valuable and who were anxious to avail themselves of this practical training could not afford to do so?
§ * MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANI understand that in some cases the General Officers who were responsible for the expenditure of the money allowed for manœuvres, and who had a laudable desire to make it go as far as possible, 581 made arrangements whereby certain officers, not on full pay, undertook the discharge of Staff duties, with acting Staff pay of 15s. a day, receiving tent accommodation and forage for their horses. I am not sure that the arrangement is free from objection, and I will look into the matter.