asked the Prime Minister whether, under the Proclamation recently issued in Ireland, men who volunteer in Ireland in 1918 and who only serve for the concluding period of the War will obtain any preferences or advantage over men who volunteered in England, Scotland, Ireland, or Wales in 1914, 1915, 1916, or 1917, and who have in many cases been wounded and discharged?

I have been asked to reply, and I cannot add anything to the statement which I made on Tuesday.