§ MR. HARRY SAMUEL (Tower Hamlets, Limehouse)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for War whether all the Royal Engineer Corps in the Home district have been without the services of adjutants from the Regular forces for at least a year; and, if so, can he state when it is proposed to remedy this state of things.
LORD STANLEYIt is not possible to provide adjutants from the Regular forces until the Royal Engineer officers return from South Africa. Their work has been meanwhile performed by acting adjutants selected from the Volunteer corps concerned.
§ MR. HARRY SAMUELSeeing that the Volunteer adjutants have done the work so well, cannot they be given the temporary rank of captain in the Army?