MILITARY SERVICE.
LORD DERBY'S SCHEME (MEN REJECTED).
asked the Under-Secretary of State for War if an unmarried man who has offered his services under Lord Derby's scheme, and was rejected since 14th August, 1915, as being medically unfit, can be enlisted under the provisions of the Military Service Act, 1916?
Such a man is excepted from the provisions of the Military Service Act.
asked the Under-Secretary of State for War if a man who has offered his services under Lord Derby's scheme in the Royal Naval Volunteer Force and has been rejected by the authorities since the 14th August, 1915, is exempted from enlistment under the Military Service Act, 1916, Schedule 1?
Such a man is not excepted from the provisions of the Military Service Act.
MARRIED MEN (STATE ALLOWANCES).
asked the Prime Minister whether the proposals for the relief of married men in the Army by Grants and otherwise will apply to Territorial Yeomen who joined before the War began?
The answer is in the affirmative.
RESTRICTION OF IMPORTS.
asked the President of the Board of Trade when he proposes to issue such additional prohibition Orders so that it will be impossible to import commodities unless they are necessary either for war purposes or for essential trades?
supplied the following list of articles as those referred to in his oral reply to the hon. Member:— Bladders, casings and sausage skins. Brooms and brushes. Bulbs, flower roots, plants, trees and shrubs. Canned, bottled, dried and preserved vegetables and pickles. Horns and hoofs. Ice. Ivory, animal and vegetable. Moss litter. Rubber tyres and tubes for motor cars and motor cycles. Salt. Starch, dextrine, farnia and potato flour.
CONTRABAND OF WAR (ARTICLES OMITTED).
asked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs why basic iron and basic iron ores, and why steel other than that containing tungsten or molybdenum, are not included in the list of articles declared to be contraband of war?
Enemy countries possess large deposits of basic ores from which ample quantities of basic pig iron and ordinary steel can be cheaply produced. Those countries have therefore no inducement to import those commodities, and His Majesty's Government see no reasons for declaring them to be contraband.