Mr. HAMILTONasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if it is a fact that in some Territorial Regiments officers on the Reserve have not been called up on embodiment and are still civilians, while their places have been filled by junior and inexperienced officers and supernumerary officers have been commissioned; and whether this is a mistake on the part of the commanding officers, and whether the War Office will at once issue a notice to all officers commanding Territorial units reminding them that on embodiment Reserve officers should be called up to join the unit?
§ Mr. TENNANTOfficers commanding Territorial units have authority to fill existing vacancies from officers of the Territorial Force Reserve. The names of those recalled were reported to the War Office, and they were gazetted to the active list. It is not possible to instruct commanding officers to call up the Reserve officers irrespectively of whether such officers are fit and efficient. Discretion on these points must be left to commanding officers.