§ Mr. SITCHasked the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been drawn to the case of six Officers appointed as lieutenants, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, who were appointed as ordnance mechanical engineers, five receiving their commissions on 11th November, 1925, and one on 9th January, 1926; whether he is aware that these officers were informed that their pay would be 19s. 10d. per diem, and that they have since been reduced to 17s. per diem; and if he will consider the possibility of antedating their appointments to date prior to the issue of Army Order 366 of 1925, which states that officers commissioned in this rank after the 26th October, 1925, shall only receive 17s. per diem?
§ Sir L. WORTHINGTON-EVANSThese officers haw, appealed to His Majesty under Section 42 of the Army Act, and, pending the result of that appeal, I can make no statement on the case.