§ SIE HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield. Central)To ask the Secretary of State for War if there is any hope of the fulfilment in the near future of the long-standing promise to provide the Fourth West York Artillery Volunteers and other corps of Volunteer artillery with modern guns in the place of obsolete cannon, having regard to the important part now taken by artillery in modern war.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) Forty-four Volunteer heavy batteries have been armed with the 4.7 inch gun. The re-armament of the remaining eighty-one batteries with 15-pr. 889 guns has been commenced, and forty-eight guns have been issued. Further issue will be made as similar guns become available when the Field Artillery is re-armed. Two of these forty-eight guns issued have been allotted to the Fourth West York Artillery Volunteers.