§ MR. GILBERT BEITH (Inverness Burghs)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War, if he is aware that a 641 grievance of long standing exists with respect to a Presbyterian Chaplaincy at Gibraltar; and, if, as recommended by the Army Chaplains Committee of the Church of Scotland, the Government will add a Chaplaincy to the Establishment to supply the want complained of, thus providing that the Presbyterian Acting Chaplain at Gibraltar may be under the same terms as to length of service as all other chaplains and all officers and men serving in the Army?
§ MR. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANThe number of Presbyterian soldiers usually quartered at Gibraltar, taking the average of many years, is not nearly sufficient to justify the appointment of a commissioned Presbyterian Chaplain to the Forces. At this moment the presence in the fortress of a Scotch regiment might seem to afford sufficient reason for such an appointment, but this reason will disappear when the regiment in question leaves Gibraltar on its tour of service.