§ Sir C. YATEasked the Secretary of State for India whether officers of the Army in India ordered on field service to Waziristan or elsewhere are entitled to free passages home for their wives and families; and, if not, will be take steps to have such passages granted to them?
§ Mr. MONTAGUThe families of officers ordered on field service to Waziristan or elsewhere on the Indian frontier are not entitled to have their families sent to this country at Government expense, and I regret that I am unable to recommend the Government of India to sanction the concession suggested. As a War measure, the families of officers sent from India to Mesopotamia were given free passages to this country, and this concession has been continued until the end of the current trooping season, provided the period of separation is likely to be a year or longer.