§ 19. Lieut.-Commander WEDGWOODasked the Under-Secretary of State for War, whether the recent failure to hold certain captured trenches on the Western front has yet convinced the War Office that a salting of officers and men who have seen modern fighting is essential to the efficiency of the New Armies, and that 1774 greater facilities will therefore be given for wounded officers and men to transfer with a rise in grade into the New Armies?
§ Mr. TENNANTI answered a question on this point put by my hon. and gallant Friend on the 30th September, but regret if I did not then make it clear to him that the principle he advocates had already been adopted before the date of that question. The bearing of current experience on this and similar questions will not of course be neglected.