§ 14. Mr. TIMOTHY DAVIESasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Private R. Addison, No. 222,588, Motor Transport Army Service Corps, was previous to his joining up a tenant farmer occupying about 600 acres, of which 400 acres were arable land, and that he was his own foreman, working on the farm himself; whether he is aware that he had 850 sheep, 90 beasts, and 16 horses at the time of his joining up; and, having regard to the national importance of such a farm as a food-producing element, whether he will immediately issue orders for him to be allowed to return to his farm?
§ 19. Mr. JOHN O'CONNORasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that one Peter Costello, late of 65, Easterhill Street, Folcross, Scotland, was recently conscripted and is now serving as private, No. 34,547, B Company, Royal Scots, at Glencora, Edinburgh; whether he has produced and shown to his commanding officer his certificate of birth, indicating that he was born on the 26th May, 1867, being now over forty-nine years of age; whether he is aware that Costello has a wife and seven children depending on him; and will he, under the circumstance that Costello is over military age, and has been unfairly treated in being wrongly called on to serve, order his discharge?
§ 30 and 33. Mr. SNOWDENasked the Secretary of State for War if he will have inquiry made at once into the circumstances connected with the taking into the Army of Private H. Ansell, No. 6976, C Company 2/4th County of London Royal Fusiliers, who was passed as fit for service in October last, though it was known that 131 he had not long ago spent six months in a tuberculosis sanatorium and since his discharge been frequently ill from this cause, and that his condition was known to the doctors who passed him into the Army; and (2) if William Brook Morton, a conscientious objector, is now in the Northern General Hospital, Armstrong College, Newcastle-on-Tyne; if he is being forcibly fed; and if it is intended to let this man die rather than give him the exemption from military service to which he is legally entitled?
§ Mr. FORSTERIn each case it is necessary to make inquiries, which have been instituted, and the result in each case will be sent to the hon. Members interested.