§ MR. ASHLEYI bog to ask the Secretary of State for War why a boy in the Regular Army under eighteen years of age who enlists from the Special Reserve is to receive man's pay, whereas a boy of the same age entering the Army in the ordinary way only receives boy's pay.
§ MR. HALDANEThese boys enlisted from the Special Reserve have done five months training including a course of musketry, and are on an entirely different tooting from boys enlisting into the Army direct.
§ MR. ASHLEYDoes the right hon. Gentleman think that six months in the Special Reserve makes a boy a man?
§ MR. HALDANEIt goes a very long way towards doing so.
§ MR. ASHLEYBut is the boy then converted into a man fit for active service?