§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether, seeing that the draft of soldiers overpowered by the police at Southampton on Friday last were men enlisted for three years only, he will consider the desirability of desisting from sending such men to India, as their foreign service must necessarily be short and the expense to the taxpayer great.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER.) Belfast. W.As the present trooping season is over the question of the desirability of sending three-years men to India cannot arise until the next trooping season, and I am not prepared to say now whether such a contingency is likely to recur.