20. Mr. EDMUND HARVEYasked the Secretary of State for War whether an official pamphlet was issued by the War Office in the year 1901 stating that men belonging to the Royal Northern Reserve might qualify for a pension by re-enlisting for periods of two years at a time until the 923 completion of fourteen years' colour service, and promising that if prevented from completing this period of colour service by reason of their attaining the age of forty-five years they should be transferred to a Special Reserve in order to complete twenty-one years of service from the date of their first enlisting, all previous periods of service being counted towards this; whether a subsequent Army Order made it necessary that in all cases fourteen years' colour service should be served in order to qualify for a pension, thus preventing certain soldiers from qualifying; and whether he can do anything to assist such men to obtain their pensions?
§ Colonel SEELYI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which I gave to a similar question put by him on 13th December last. I regret that I can add nothing to it.