§ MR. ELLIOT (Durham)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War, seeing that private soldiers on active service are entitled to 6d. per diem in addition to free rations, whether he will explain why, when payment is asked for by soldiers in South Africa, they have been told that payment will not be made till the end of the war.
§ *MR. WYNDHAMThe hon. Member-has been misinformed. Soldiers on active service get free rations, including vegetables and groceries when possible, and they also get the 3d. messing allowance, 398 but not the 6d. ration allowance. The ration allowance, however, is due to a soldier for any day on which he did not draw a ration, and the money is paid to him weekly if he desires. On a campaign, however, occasions may, of course, arise which preclude the possibility of such payment for a time.