§ Colonel WARDEasked the Under-Secretary for War whether he will extend the furloughs at present granted to convalescent soldiers on discharge from 45W hospital to a longer period than seven days before returning to the front, or at any rate will allow a discretionary extension in cases where it takes the men half the above-named time to travel to and from their homes; and whether he will consider the possibility of arranging that men who may possibly have been serving for nine or ten months in the trenches shall have a somewhat longer holiday on recovering from their wounds?
§ Mr. TENNANTLeave is already being given to invalided soldiers in large numbers as freely as the exigencies of the service admit.