§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War if, when the Royal Reserve Regiments are disbanded, any facilities can be offered to officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates, within the age limits, and duly recommended for character and capacity, to rejoin the Standing Army, if in their respective arms and ranks vacancies exist.
§ * MR. WYNDHAMYes, Sir, if there are vacancies. But in the case of the officers it is not probable that there will be any vacancies, because the war has led to a large increase in the number of officers, and many of them will be supernumerary when it is ended. The conditions on which a certain number of non-commissioned officers and men may be retained in the ranks were published in an Army Order on the 28th April.