§ Colonel WEDGWOODasked the Secretary of State for War whether the men of the Labour Division of the Middlesex Regiment, being sons of alien enemies, have been told that they would be the last to be demobilised; whether many of these men have been transferred to the battalion after having been wounded; and whether the money spent on keeping up this battalion in England is spent for the protection of this country or as a disciplinary charge?
Captain GUESTThe men referred to by my hon. and gallant Friend are being treated in the same way as other soldiers who are eligible for demobilisation under the recent Army Orders providing for the composition of the Armies of Occupation. A small number of these men were transferred to the unit after having been wounded.