§ 50. Mr. BENNETT-GOLDNEYasked the Prime Minister if, when the Government is considering what adequate pension or allowance shall be given out of public funds for the benefit of the widow and children of the late Captain Fryatt, he will consult with his colleagues in the Cabinet as to the propriety of giving pensions and allowances on the fullest scale to the widows and children of those British soldiers who were negligently killed in a troop train in India; and if, in these cases, he will take the necessary steps to have these widows and children treated as though their husbands and fathers had been killed in action?
§ Mr. CHAMBERLAINI do not think the case of these Territorial drafts in India has any connection with the case of Captain Fryatt. My hon. and learned Friend will remember that on the 1st August I dealt somewhat fully with the case of the Territorials. In accordance with that the widows and children of those of the soldiers referred to who belonged to the Territorial Force will, under rule, be granted the same rates of pension as they would have received had the soldiers been killed in action. The widows and children 668 of those who did not belong to the Territorial Force are not entitled under rule to these pensions, but I have asked the concurrence of the Army Council to a proposal that all should be treated alike.