§ CAPTAIN JESSELI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether the instructions as to the voluntary retirement of combatant officers, laid down in Army Orders of February 1899, are retrospective in their application; and, if so, whether ho can state to what extent?
MR. POWELL WILLIAMSThe regulations contained in Army Order 27 of February 1899 have been in the main part in force since 1886. The modifications introduced by this Order are in the nature of a relaxation of the regulations, and came into effect from the 1st February 1899.