GENERAL RUSSELLI beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether, in view of the large number of casualties among regimental officers now serving at the front, there is any prospect of a relaxation, in favour of specially recommended and highly qualified officers, of the rule which forbids the employment of Volunteer officers to be attached to Regulars, unless the battalion to which they belong has supplied its full quota of Volunteers for the front.
* MR. J. POWELL-WILLIAMS (for Mr. WYNDHAM)In special cases the Secretary of State would be prepared to consider the attaching of highly qualified Volunteer officers to units in South Africa in want of officers. It would as a rule, however, only be possible to employ them as subalterns.