§ CAPTAIN NORTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War if he can state whether in January,1900, the Director-General of Ordnance drew the attention of the Government to the necessity of providing a new gun, and proposed to appoint a Committee of Inquiry into the matter; and whether a full year elapsed before the Committee was appointed.
§ *MR. ARNOLD-FORSTERIn January,1900, the Director-General of Ordnance proposed that a special Committee of 12 officers who had experience in the South African War, with General Marshall as president, should be appointed to consider the re-armament of the Horse and Field Artillery as soon as they could be recalled from South Africa. General Marshall arrived in England in December,1900, and the Committee was appointed in January,1901.