§ MR. WEIRTo ask the Secretary of State for War if he will state under what rule of the King's Regulations a private soldier in the Scots Regiment of Foot Guards, certificate of discharge, No. 4731, was accompanied by a non-commissioned officer to his home in the Island of Lewis in October, 1903.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) If the hon. Member refers to such cases as those alluded to in his Question of the 10th instant,† the reply is that as such cases are not considered of sufficient importance to report to headquarters, there is no information to show why in each specific instance a conducting party is detailed.