§ Mr. PIRIEasked the Secretary for War if he will state the detailed cost of the inspection journeys of the Inspector-General of Overseas Forces for 1911, and, with regard to this officer's journey to Pekin, the number of British troops in garrison there; and, seeing that at the lowest computation the office of Inspector-General cost the country in 1912 the sum of over £9,000, a saving could be effected to go towards the better payment of the subaltern ranks of the Army?
§ Colonel SEELYThe cost was as follows:
Mediterranean £250 West Indies £560 South Africa, Mauritius, and West Africa £l,340 The British troops at Pekin and Tientsin in 1912 consisted of two British battalions, one Indian native battalion, and other details amounting in all to about 3,000. The present Inspector-General was appointed in August, 1910, and has rendered reports of exceptional value since his appointment.