§ Earl WINTERTONasked the Secretary of State for War if, in view of the harm to the public likely to be caused by the smuggling of dogs from abroad into the United Kingdom, he will cause a general routine Order to be published making it a court-martial offence for officers and other ranks serving abroad to smuggle dogs to Great Britain contrary to the Regulations in force?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLGeneral routine Orders have already been published forbidding dogs to be brought to the United Kingdom unless the owners are in possession of licences issued by the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries. Instructions are being issued that these Orders are to be republished. Disobedience of general routine Orders is already an offence under the Army Act (Section 11).