§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLTo ask the Secretary of State for War whether any 1120 and, if so, how many, of the cartridges S. A. (Small Arms) ball pistol Webley cordite II., of which, according to the annual accounts of the Ordnance Factories for the financial years 1900–1901 and 1901–1902, 4,674,336 and 3,450,828 were made, were furnished with expansive bullets; were the bullets OT any of them of the Webley man-stopping type.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) Cartridges S.A. ball pistol Webley cordite mark II. were not furnished with expansive bullets, nor were any of them of the Webley man-stopping type.
§ * SIR CHARLES DILKE (Gloucestershire, Forest of Dean)intimated that unless by a form which he believed was possible, but not usual, a corrected reply was substituted for an Answer to an unstarred Question which he had received that morning with reference to the ventilation of the pressing room at the Army Clothing factory, he proposed to call attention on the Army Clothing Vote to the reply that "no complaints of the ventilation of the pressing rooms at this factory have been brought to the knowledge of the War Office either by a private deputation or by other communications"—inasmuch as he himself introduced a deputation and made a communication on the subject.