§ Viscount CASTLEREAGH (for Mr. Lane-Fox)asked whether Army Order 1 of 1903 ordains that two chargers will be supplied at the public expense to each officer serving in a regiment of cavalry of the line, and gives further privileges as to hiring chargers; whether, on a regiment being ordered to India, these privileges are withdrawn and each officer is only allowed to hire one charger from the Government, having to buy the second charger at his own expense; and whether the Government of India can see their way to remove the hardship involved by the difference in these regulations?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSE (in the absence of Mr. Buchanan)The conditions of service in India differ from those obtaining here, and the Indian Regulations are as stated in the Question. The Government of India in 1904 received authority to relax the existing limitation on the hiring of chargers as soon as financial conditions should admit of it. The Secretary of State will invite their attention to the subject.