43. Mr. ERSKINEasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that officers who have been transferred from Cologne to Wiesbaden are being temporarily accommodated at a hotel; and whether there is any grant or allowance made to cover the extra cost to which these officers are put?
The SECRETARY of STATE for WAR (Sir Laming) Worthington-EvansA certain number of officers are accommodated in hotels at Wiesbaden until quarters are available for them. The General Officer Commanding has been authorised to issue allowances towards the extra cost to which these officers are put.
78. Mr. ERSKINEasked the Secretary of State for War why, in view of the desirability of upholding the prestige of the Army of Occupation, British officers were transferred from Cologne to Wiesbaden in second-class railway carriages?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSThe only first-class carriages in Germany are 822 bogie corridor stock which, for purely technical reasons, could not be attached to the troop trains, and it was necessary to use second-class carriages instead.