§ 33. Major CAYZERasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether women who have been compelled to take proceedings against soldiers for the maintenance of themselves and their children are obliged to pay the railway fares and expenses of such soldiers to attend the hearing of the cases; and, if so, seeing that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty have relieved the women of these obligations, can he state what steps, if any, have been taken, or if it is intended to take any action, to place the dependants of soldiers on an equal footing with those of sailors in this respect?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the written reply to a question put by my hon. Friend the Member for Burnley on the 3rd April, to the effect that the matter has been fully considered, and that, while realising the hardship of the present rule in certain cases, I do not think that any case has been made out for changing the law so far as the Army is concerned.