§ SIR SAMUEL SCOTT (Marylebone, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can give any information as to what Volunteer companies are on their way home, and how many of the special applications to return from the old Imperial Yeomanry have been acceded to.
§ MR. BRODRICKLord Kitchener informed me a few days ago that all the Volunteer service companies attached to different regiments are now on their way to Cape Town, or embarked for home. He added that some hundreds of the original Imperial Yeomanry had been released, and were on their way to embark. I may say that from the disposition of his troops, of which Lord Kitchener informed me by last mail, I gather that he hopes shortly to dispense with the services of all the remainder of the original body of Yeomanry, as he considers they require rest after their service, but I cannot fix a date.