§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he can state the number of men in the Regular Army who, on 1st January, 1899, were returned as under the age of nineteen; the number of those returned as under the age of twenty; and the number of those who had been enlisted as specials.
LORD STANLEYThe numbers under nineteen years of age were 16,892, and under twenty were 36,878. During 1898 there were 12,983 men enlisted as specials, and on the 1st January, 1899, 59 per cent. of these had reached standard.