§ 49. Mr. GLANVILLEasked the Prime Minister if arrangements can be made by which free insurance can be allowed to all men serving either in the Army or Navy for any sums remitted by them to relations in Great Britain, in order to prevent a recurrence of cases similar to that of Mrs. Weedon, of 68, Bermondsey Street, S.E., whose husband sent her £5 in a registered letter which was lost, and which the British postal authorities refuse to make good?
Mr. PIKE PEASEThe Prime Minister has asked me to answer this question. I regret that I could not recommend a system of free insurance, which might impose in certain circumstances a very considerable liability on the State. Money can be remitted from the Front without any such risk by the money orders obtainable at French post offices.