asked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is now in a position to make any statement with regard to the arrangements made by the Army Council with regard to the status of Volunteer officers who are called up under the new Military Service Act; and will they be transferred as officers in the Army, or will they be placed in some cadet corps for instruction, or will they have to join up as privates?

Volunteer officers and ex-Volunteer officers between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five will be sent to cadet battalions, in so far as there are vacancies. These vacancies arc, however, very few in number. Generally, therefore, the arrangement will be that they will have the opportunity of joining the Inns of Court or Artists' Officers Training Corps, where there will be special platoons appropriate to their age and class. This applies only to Volunteer officers and ex-Volunteer officers who held their commissions before the passing of the Act.