MR. CHANGING (Northamptonshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he will state the procedure adopted in selecting farms, under Proclamation 18 of Lord Milner, to be sold to make good charges against individual burghers for the maintenance of their families in the concentration camps; what evidence was obtained that the farms in question belonged to those burghers, and that the burghers whose title was established to the farms were, as a matter of fact, serving on commando; whether any official statement of the charges made against their estates, in respect of maintenance of their families in the camps, have been drawn up and sent in any way to those burghers; or whether these accounts 545 have been dealt with by the Civil Commissioner of the Orange River Colony or by any tribunal, and orders made for the sale of the farms after proof of default to pay the particular account.
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. J. CHAMBERLAIN, Birmingham, W.I have no information on this subject beyond what I have already stated in reply to previous Questions.
§ MR. CHANNINGIn consequence of repeated replies of this nature, I will call attention to the whole question on the Colonial Office Vote.