*SIR J. DICKSON POYNDER (Wiltshire, Chippenham)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether he can state the total number of drafts, whose term of service will expire within the next two years, that have been sent to all stations, Indian and foreign respectively, within the past six months.
MR. ARNOLD-FORKTERIt is impossible to state exactly the number of such men whose service expires in the next two years without reference to every unit concerned. The number who embarked during the trooping season just ended, with less than two years service to complete, was for India 4,610, and for the Colonies 965