§ 46. Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Under-Secretary of State for War if he can now grant permission to Territorial associations to call up a proportion of Class II. and Class II. of the different units of the National Reserve volunteering for the work in cases where the local police, in conjunction with the different military commands concerned, find it desirable to provide guards for main railway and road bridges situated on the principal routes to cross-Channel ports, as well as for water works, electric light works, gas works, and other public undertakings of the kind, the safety of which is a matter of material interest both to the military authorities and to the public; if he is aware that in Dover such National Reserve units are already doing duty of this nature; and if, as the employment of such National Reserve men in certain other military centres of activity would free Territorial Force men for full training and throw less strain upon the police forces which are already quite fully occupied, he will issue information on the subject to Territorial associations and to the chief superintendents of police?
§ Mr. TENNANTInstructions, in the sense suggested by the hon. Member, have been issued by the War Office to General Officers Commanding-in-Chief, and Territorial Force associations. A considerable and daily increasing number of National Reservists is so employed, where considered necessary, thereby relieving the more mobile troops for training and other duties.