§ CAPTAIN BOWLES (Middlesex, Enfield)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs what steps have been taken by Her Majesty's Government for recognising and adequately rewarding the distinguished services of those officers and men recently employed under Sir H. H. Johnstone, K.C.B., in the successful expeditions against the 1631 slave dealers in the British Protectorate in Central Africa?
MR. CURZONThe issue of the Central African Medal has been sanctioned to the officers and men engaged in the operations from 1891 to 1894 inclusive. Its issue for the operations in 1895 is under consideration. The services of the officers of Her Majesty's Regular Forces have been brought before the Secretaries of State for War and India with a view to their being recognised as entitling those officers, as far as the regulations admit, to be considered as having been "mentioned in Dispatches." The question of any further recognition of services in consequence of this mention is being referred to the Secretary of State for War.