§ DR. THOMPSONTo ask the Secretary of Stats for War if his attention has been called to the effect on the numbers in the Irish Militia regiments of the non-payment of a bounty on enlistment; and if he is prepared to sanction such a division of the present annual payments that each recruit shall receive £1, or such less sum as may be determined upon, on enlistment.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Arnold-Forster.) The Army Council is not in possession of any information to show that the non-payment of a bounty on enlistment has any effect on recruiting for the Irish Militia, nor have any representations to this effect been made to the Council. There would not, therefore, appear to be any good reason for carrying out the alteration suggested in the last part of the Question.