§ 35. Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIENasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether a number of competent workers in the munition areas have enlisted in the New Army, necessitating the employment of wastrels in their places; and, if so, whether he has considered, as a solution of the munitions of war difficulty, the restoration of the soldiers thus enlisted to the more urgent patriotic duty of increasing the supply of arms and ammunition?
§ Mr. LLOYD GEORGEI am authorised by my Noble Friend the Secretary of State for War to inform the hon. Member that the matter is receiving the attention 1631 of the Army Council, and that a considerable number of soldiers possessing the qualifications mentioned are already willingly working in the shops turning out munitions of war.