MR. SEYMOUR ORMSBY-GOBE (Lincolnshire, Gainsborough)To ask the Secretary of State for War what steps are being taken towards there-armament of the mobile batteries of the Artillery Volunteers.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) Forty-four batteries have been armed with the 4.7-ineh gun—total 176 guns. The re-armament of the remaining eighty-one batteries with fifteen pounders has been commenced by the issue of forty-eight of these guns from reserves: and further issues will be made as these guns become available when the field artillery is re-armed.