§ Mr. JOYNSON-HICKSasked the Secretary of State for War whether the order that men are to be retained for the Army of Occupation who enlisted on or after 1st January, 1916,applies to men of the Regular or Territorial Army who had completed their term of service, and had been discharged as time-expired in 1915 or 1916, and subsequently re-enlisted under the Military Service Act; and whether he is aware that men are now being refused demobilisation under this order who are 963W wearers of the Mons ribbon and who fought and were wounded at Ypres, and what steps he proposes to take?
Captain GUESTThe answer to the first part of my hon. Friend's questions is in the negative. These men are being demobilised as the exigencies of the Service permit, or, if temporarily required for the military machinery of demobilisation, as soon as they can be individually substituted or dispensed with.