§ 60. Colonel PERKINSasked the President of the Board of Trade the number of claims put forward by men of the mercantile marine interned in Germany on the outbreak of War; and in how many of these, up to the present, the German Government has made any offer of settlement?
§ Sir B. CHADWICK903 claims have been lodged under Clause 4 of the Annex to Section IV of Part X of the Treaty of Versailles by officers and men of British merchant ships lying in German ports at the outbreak of War, of which 83 are claims by the crews of ships which have been rejected by the arbitrator. Under the agreement recently concluded with the German Government, 650 offers of settlement have been notified to the British Clearing Office.