§ SIR HENRY HAVELOCK-ALLAN (Durham, S.E.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, having regard to the repeated recommendations of many Military and Departmental Committees, that the number of battalions at home and abroad should be equalised, as nearly as possible, in order to relieve the tremendous strain on the regimental and territorial system caused by men having to be taken from every battalion in the Army to complete a regiment when ordered abroad, which causes confusion and disturbance throughout the Service, whether he can assure the House that some steps, and, if so, what, are being taken to remedy this great anomaly in the course of the present financial Military year; and, failing this, whether he proposes to carry out this most important improvement in the Army Estimates of next year?
§ * THE UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. BRODRICK,) Surrey, GuildfordI must refer the hon. and gallant Member to my reply of the 4th instant, to the right hon. Baronet the Member for North-east Manchester, in which I stated that the subject was engaging the earnest attention of the Secretary of State