16 and 17. Lieut. - Colonel ARTHUR MURRAYasked the Secretary of State for War (1) whether, in view of the statement made in the pamphlet issued with Army Order No. 7, of 13th May, 1919, that educational training is not to be regarded as a secondary consideration but as an essential element in the making of a soldier and an Army, and provides a link with civil life and the nation at large, he can say whether some such educational system as has proved so successful in the British Army of the Rhine will be a definite organisation of the future Army;
(2) whether, in view of the statement made on 11th June by the President of the Board of Education that the fact that education was henceforward to be an essential part of Army training was one. of the great steps forward in social progress, he will say what arrangements have been made to afford to Regular units proceeding overseas the advantages of the present Army educational scheme?