§ Mr. HUNTasked the Under-Secretary for War whether he is aware that in the case of Private S. Lock, G Company, Shropshire Light Infantry, his father stated before his son enlisted that he could not give any guarantee that his son could stay in the regiment after the age of eighteen, and that Mr. Dewar, who raised the section, pointed out to his father that S. Lock would have to rejoin at the age of eighteen when his father's guarantee expired and that this was confirmed by Sergeant-Instructor Barrett, and also that Private Lock was sent a postcard from the officer commanding of G Company asking him to re-engage for a further term of two 981W years with the promise that he should be made full bugler; and will he say why S. Lock has been proceeded against with a view to his being fined because he did not re-engage?
§ Colonel SEELYPrivate Lock joined the Force on 31st July, 1908, and is therefore liable to serve until the 30th July, 1912. The points raised in the question do not bear in any way on his liability to serve until this latter date.