§ MR. C. BILL (Staffordshire, Leek)To ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether the award of the arbitrator in the Waima case has been accepted by the French Government; when the compensation money will be paid; and how will it lie distributed.
(Answered by Lord Cranborne.) The French Government have informed His Majesty's Government that the compensation money will be paid as soon as the sanction of the Chamber can be obtained. It is proposed to distribute the amount, £9,000, in the proportion of—.£4,000 to the widow and three children of Lieutenant Listen; £2,000 to the mother of Captain Lendy;£2,000 to the mother of Second Lieutenant Wroughton; £1,000 among the families of the non-commissioned officers and men of the West India Regiment and the Sierra Leone Frontier Police who were killed, and among the non-commissioned officers and men of those forces who have sustained permanent injury in consequence of the wounds which they then received. Of course the sums actually distributed in the several cases where advances of the compensation money have already been made will be less than those I have mentioned by the amounts advanced.