§ CAPTAIN NORTON (Newington, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether any representations have been made by the present commandant of the Royal Military College, Camberley, on the indifferent shooting of some among the recent batches of cadets; and, if so, will he state the nature of the representations, and whether he has any official reports attributing indifferent shooting 1038 to the standard of vision for candidates being only one-fourth of normal vision with the naked eye instead of normal vision, viz., six-sixths of Snellen's type.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR WAR (Mr. ARNOLD-FORSTER,) Belfast, WThe commandant Royal Military College has reported that the shooting of the 4th Division of Cadets now passing out of Sandhurst was bad, but he did not attribute this to defective eyesight. Last year the question of admission of cadets with defective eyesight to the Royal Military College was rail d by a report from the Principal Medical Officer, First Army Corps, and steps were then taken to ensure that all cadets admitted to the Royal Military College or Royal Military Academy, whose eyesight, though defective, was within the standard laid down by Regulations and remediable by glasses, should be advised at the medical inspection to consult civil occulists to ascertain exactly what glasses they should wear. There are no official reports to the effect stated in the last part of the Question.