§ 29. Mr. PRINGLEasked the Undersecretary for War whether he can state the instructions given as to the training of men over forty-three years of age; and whether he has received any complaints as to the severity of the training to which these men are subjected?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONRecruits over the age of forty years are squadded and accommodated together, and are placed under senior instructors. The ordinary syllabus of training has been modified, and no physical training, as such, is given. Such physical exercises as are required are carefully graduated, and care is taken to ensure that these are within their powers. General Officers Commanding-in-Chief have been requested to give their personal attention to the training of these men and to see that they are sympathetically treated, and that more is not expected or asked of them than can reasonably be performed. The answer to the 1024 last part of the question is that I have received complaints from three different camps sent to me by my hon. and learned Friend.