§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether, seeing that boys who are drafted on board French ships of war between sixteen and eighteen are technically rated as men, and are not subject to flogging, he can explain why in the British Navy youths of sixteen to eighteen, who are rated as boys, are liable to flogging and caning.
§ MR. PRETYMANThe reason is that the regulations of the two services are different.
§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLWhat do the French naval officers think of us?