§ MR. MALCOLM (Suffolk, Stow-market)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether the understanding arrived at with the railway companies as to the conveyance of Volunteers to camp on Saturdays has worked satisfactorily.
§ MR. WYNDHAMI am sorry to say that although the majority of the railway companies consented to fulfil the requirements of the Volunteer corps, in two cases recently companies failed to do so. The Midland Railway have declined to run special trains on the 5th August to convey Volunteer battalions of the Western Brigade to Bournemouth, and the arrangements made by the North Western Railway have necessitated the arrival of two Lancashire battalions at Conway on Whit Sunday.
§ MR. MALCOLMIs there any redress obtainable?
§ * MR. WYNDHAMI think not. But the Great Western Railway Company quite recently assented to the request of the Secretary of State.