§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILL (Donegal, S.)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether the surviving officers of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, who went into action eight hundred strong and came out two hundred, while out of thirty officers only five returned unwounded, have been informed that there was to be no promotion because their captain was too young to be a major; and whether, accordingly, officers from other regiments are to be introduced into this regiment and placed in higher position over the men unwounded, or, though wounded, still fit for service, who fought gallantly on the battlefield.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMThe reply to both questions is in the negative.