§ 72. Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked whether eight ex-soldiers with an average oversea service of two years have within the last month been dismissed from No. 11 Section, Mob. 10, War Office, while eighty male civilians and twenty lady clerks are being retained; and whether this is by the authority of the Army Council?
§ Mr. FORSTERSeven clerks have been discharged from this section, as its duties are coming to an end, and endeavours are being made to find other employment in the War Office for two of these who are disabled men. Of the remaining live, only one is an ex-soldier. The male civilians remaining in the section number twenty, and the majority of these are ex-soldiers. There are no women clerks serving in No. 11 Section.