§ Captain BOWYERasked the Secretary of State for War whether, by Army Order 159, of 1918, it is intended that warrant officers who were granted temporary commissions after May, 1918, should receive considerable benefits and advantages as regards pensions over those warrant officers who were granted temporary commissions prior to May, 1918; whether, if this is so, he will state the reasons which prompted the drafting of an order making this differentiation; and whether he will take steps to amend the order so as to grant equal treatment to all warrant officers who were granted temporary commissions, whatever the date of their gazette may have been?
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONThe suggestion, as I understand it, is that the terms on which certain officers took commissions, with full understanding at the time, should be now revised because other terms were subsequently offered to other officers. I will not refuse to consider the question, but the hon. and gallant Member must not understand me to admit the principle.