§ 20. Sir JOHN JARDINEasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether any relaxation of paragraph 453 of the King's Regulations has taken place since it was issued in 1913 as regards the prohibition to officers and soldiers to publish in the Press their views on any military subject; whether any exemption or privilege has, during the course of the War, been allowed in practice to officers and soldiers serving in Parliament as regards such printed communications; and whether any particular procedure has been sanctioned by the War Office 305 whereby an officer or soldier can bring before his military superiors his views on such questions as recruiting, organisation, explosives, or other military subjects which he may have studied?
§ Mr. TENNANTI would refer my hon. Friend to the answers I gave on this matter on the 29th June. The position as denned by me then has not altered, but I may add with reference to the last part of my hon. Friend's question, that no special procedure has been sanctioned whereby an officer or soldier may bring before his military superiors his views on the points mentioned, but he can, of course, always approach the higher military authorities through his immediate superiors.