§ Mr. NEEDHAMasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that there is uneasiness in the minds of some Volunteers who have signed on for definite periods of two or three months that they will not be released at the termination of their respective periods of service; and whether there is any grounds for this uneasiness?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThere is no ground whatever for the existence of any uneasiness such as my hon. Friend suggests. At the termination of their respective periods of service these Volunteers will be released, and there is no power to retain them, unless, of course, the force as a whole has, in the meantime, been called out for actual military service.