§ MR. WARNER (Staffordshire, Lichfield)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War where the horses for the Imperial Yeomanry were procured from; whether they were horses purchased at the Cape, or whether they were supplied from the horses sent out for remounts; or from what other source they were obtained.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMThe horses were procured from the following countries:—England, 6,384; Ireland, 1,355; Cape,. 862; Australia, 625; from other sources, 3,811; total, 13,037, 4,060 of these were supplied by Yeomanry commanders, the remainder by the Imperial Yeomanry Committee. None were supplied from the horses sent out as remounts.