§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)To ask the Secretary of State for War if the mounted infantry establishments are to be disbanded; and, in such case, how he reconciles such a decision with the necessity in the South African War of improvising large masses of such troops, and with the Reports of General Sir Ian Hamilton as to their utility in Manchuria.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) The Mounted Infantry Schools at Bulford, in Ireland, and at Malta, will be closed. The School of Mounted Infantry at Aldershot is considered by the Army Council to be sufficiently large to provide for the force of mounted infantry which will be required immediately on mobilisation.