§ Major NEWMANasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that valuable chargers, the property of the Remount Department, are being dispatched by order of officials of the Department to their destination in open cattle trucks without rugs, and thereby running grave risk; and whether he will communicate with the Department on the subject?
§ Mr. TENNANTI am informed that in a few isolated cases it has been necessary to send horses, but in few cases chargers, by open trucks owing to the absence of covered trucks, but that in all such cases special arrangements are made by the railway companies to afford shelter with tarpaulin sheetings.