§ Mr. SANDYSasked the Secretary of State for War the estimated annual number of recruits required to keep the Territorial Force up to its full establishment?
§ Colonel SEELYThe force has not been in existence sufficiently long to enable me to give more than a very rough estimate, but a calculation has been made, which is necessarily imperfect, to the effect that about 68,000 are required annually to maintain the present establishment of 302,056 non-commissioned officers and men.