§ MR. GODFREY BARING (Isle of Wight)To ask the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether 1,200 men of the South African Constabulary were retrenched while that force was under the control of the High Commissioner and the Inter-Colonial Council.
(Answered by Colonel Seely.) These retrenchments took place while the force was still under the High Commissioner and Inter-Colonial Council, but they were really effected on the advice of Ministers which Lord Selborne felt he ought to follow.