HC Deb 26 February 1919 vol 112 c1770W
Sir C. KINLOCH-COOKE

asked the Secretary of State for War whether he can see his way to demobilise all dockyard apprentices, so that they may return to their civil employment and work at their respective trades?

Mr. CHURCHILL

I have nothing to add to the answer given to my hon. and gallant Friend the Member for Portsmouth North on this subject on the 20th instant. Men who are eligible under the recent Army Order will be demobilised as the exigencies of the Service permit, or, if temporarily required for the military machinery of demobilisation, as and when they can be individually substituted or dispensed with.