CAPTAIN BOWLESI beg to ask the Secretary of State for War whether the families of those men who have lost their lives by the explosion at Waltham Abbey will be provided for by the Government, and will not have to seek local charity as on the previous occasion?
§ MR. WOODALL(who replied) said: The usual allowances will be made with the sanction of the Treasury. On the late occasion an appeal was made to the benevolence of the neighbourhood 806 apparently in ignorance of the fact that any allowance from public funds would be given.
§ MR. HANBURYWere allowances made from the public funds in the last Case?
§ MR. WOODALLYes, Sir.