§ 28. Mr. SNOWDENasked the Under- Secretary of State for War if he will take immediate action in the case of Private Robert Reid, of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who on Monday, 12th March, was remitted from Partick Police Court to the military as a deserter, seeing that Reid has on two occasions been discharged from the Army, the last time unfit for further military service, and granted a pension of 25s. a week, but since his discharge has acted in his parents' house for six months in an insane manner, drilling imaginary soldiers, throwing articles about which he believed to be bombs, and that it was 407 during this period of insanity that he enlisted for the third time; and, seeing that these-facts are within the knowledge of the recruiting officer, Bath Street, Glasgow, will proper action be taken to deal with the matter?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONYes, Sir; this has been done.