§ MR. GRETTONI beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs how many outstanding claims for damage to British shipping and property during the late war in the Far East remain unsettled; and what steps are being taken to obtain a settlement.
§ SIR EDWARD GREYThe position as it stood last year was stated generally in an Answer I gave to the hon. Member 1231 for the Cockermouth Division of Cumberland on the 23rd of May of last year. I have stated the present position of specific cases in answers I have given in the course of the present and last month to various hon. Members, and particularly in the replies I made yesterday to the hon. Member for the St. Austell Division of Cornwall. No later developments have occurred.