§ 37. Mr. DENISON-PENDERasked whether improvements can be made in the arrangements for bringing Home soldiers who have been demobilised in France and to shorten the time taken on the journey which at the present time takes at least a week?
Captain GUESTAt present the difficulties of transportation in France and Belgium are very great, but every effort is being made to effect improvements. In some instances the train journey overseas, under existing circumstances, takes five days, and in such cases it is conceivable that at least a week would be occupied in reaching the Dispersal Station in this country. These, however, are extreme instances, but in other cases the journey is much shorter and many men have been demobilised in this county and proceeded to their homes on the same day that they left their units in France.