§ MR. ELLIS GRIFFITH (Anglesey)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that officers in the Royal Engineers have to serve eleven years after receiving their first commission before they attain the rank of Captain, and that they must he thirty years of age before attaining that rank, and seeing that this term of service as a junior officer is longer than is required in other branches of the service, he will consider the advisability of shortening the period for the Royal Engineers.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) The whole question is at present receiving my attention.