§ Colonel ARCHER-SHEEasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that there a number of single men under twenty-five years of age employed by railway companies; and whether he will state whether the Government intend to call out these men for service forthwith?
Mr. RUNCIMANThe Railway Executive Committee are fully alive to the necessity of releasing as many men as can possibly be spared consistently with the demands of the very heavy traffic with which the railway companies have to deal. The total number of men so far released by the British railway companies is considerably over 140,000.