, The decision of the Secretary of State for War
as to the officers concerned in the War Stores Commission Report was published in Tuesday's papers. No action is taken in the ease of the General Officers, but a special reference is made to General Lyttelton, Mr. Haldane considering that he could only be technically held responsible for mistakes which probably no man in his position could have avoided, as it was "almost humanly impossible for him at once to supervise the system of supply and adequately to command the troops." Four Captains in the Army Service Corps and two civilian clerks have been exonerated, while in the case of three officers and seventeen warrant and non-commissioned officers no action will be taken. Eleven officers have been censured, four of whom will also lose seniority in varying degrees. Lieutenant. Colonel H. G. Morgan, C.B., D.S.O., and five other officers of the Army Service Corps have been called upon to retire, and Lieutenant-Colonel G. E. Hamnett has been removed from the Army without retiring allowance. Nine warrant officers and non-commissioned officers, all of the Army Service Corps, have also been discharged for misconduct. It is stated that a few cases of officers serving abroad are still under con- sideration, and that the Treasury solicitor's advice "has been and is being closely followed" in regard to the possibility of civil or criminal proceedings being instituted, especially in the case of the contractors implicated and their agents.
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