§ Sir JAMES YOXALLasked the Under-Secretary of State for War by what authority a statement has been included in the syllabus issued by the Southern Army Command for the instruction of soldiers in probationary battalions to the effect that there has never been a greater need for national intelligence than which exists at present, but that it would seem as though the schools, with their intensely narrow outlook, have only produced a deadening of the imagination, an incapacity for reasoning, and a complete lack of that social and civic instinct or conscientiousness which is the basis of good citizenship; and if, in view of the services of men and officers educated in the schools, as a whole, displayed during the course of the War, instructions will be given that this passage is to be deleted from the syllabus in question and not to be repeated in any other?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI have written to my hon. Friend about this and explained the matter to him.