§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any steps have been taken to fix the sum due to the South African Republic in payment of the indemnity of the Jameson Raid which he expressed himself as willing to submit to arbitration; and whether, having regard to the outbreak of hostilities between Great Britain and the Transvaal, the statement in his despatch to Lord Rosmead, dated 10th April, 1897, that the British South Africa Company would have to make compensation for the Jameson Raid, still holds good.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINIt was proposed to the Government of the South African Republic, as the hon. Member is aware, that the claim for material damage should be submitted to arbitration, but that Government in its reply received by me on July 29th declined to abandon its claim to moral and intellectual damage. Steps were being taken to prepare a deed of submission of the matter to arbitration (excluding the claim for moral and intellectual damage) and any claim on account of expenditure in respect of the disturbances at Johannesburg in 1895–96 which required to be settled in concert with the British South Africa Company previous to further communication with the South African Republic, but the progress of events has prevented further action. It is impossible to anticipate the situation at the conclusion of hostilities.