§ MR. MANSFIELD (Lincolnshire, Spalding)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been called to the fact that members of the Birmingham Police Force were engaged to go to the front in Africa at 3s. per day, that when they got to the front they were paid 5s. per day, that the Treasury on finding this out ordered the men home, but on their return to this country engaged them to return at 3s. 6d. per day; and whether the cost of transport per man is about £40; and, if so, can he say what was saved by bringing 563 the men home in order to secure a reduction in their pay.
LORD STANLEYNothing-whatever is known at the War Office or the Treasury of the circumstances named by the hon. Member.