§ SIR SAMUEL SCOTT (Marylebone, W.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether it is proposed by the Army Council that the Yeomanry should still be armed and trained with the bayonet, in view of the fact that, under the new Territorial Army scheme, they are to undertake the duties of cavalry; and whether orders will be issued at once abolishing the bayonet as a weapon for the Yeomanry, in order that the time now spent in training men to the use of 1095 this weapon may be better utilised in making them acquainted with weapons more suitable to a cavalry soldier.
§ MR. J. A. PEASE (for Mr. HALDANE)No decision has been come to on this point.