§ MR. BYLESTo ask the President of the Board of Education is he aware that in the metropolitan borough of Lewisham a school rifle association has been formed; that it has been joined by forty out of forty-three public elementary Schools containing 2,600 boys, and that all these boys, who are over twelve years of age, are required to shoot with miniature rifles; will he say whether these pupils are instructed in the art and inculcated with the duty of killing their fellow men; and whether the cost of such instruction, or any part of it, falls upon the public.
§ (Answered by Mr. McKenna.) I understand that a school rifle association has been formed, but I have no information as to its membership. No part of the instruction is allowed to be given during school hours or at the public expense.