§ Lord N. CRICHTON-STUARTasked the Secretary of State for War how many Territorial Infantry battalions have now-been served out with the tripod Maxim gun-carriage; how many more there are to be given this tripod carriage; when this process of serving out the tripod mountings will be accomplished; and how many battalions of the South Wales Infantry Brigade are still without the new gun-carriage?
§ Mr. TENNANTOne hundred and twenty-six battalions have received the tripod mountings, and of the remaining, eighty-one it is hoped that seventy-three will receive them in time for next year's training. The rest will be completed in 1913–14. No tripod mountings have yet been issued to the South Wales Infantry-Brigade.