§ 54. Mr. OLIVER BALDWINasked the President of the Board of Trade whether ex-Sergeant J. H. Arakelian, D.C.M., of 302, Ilford Lane, Ilford, can be considered an Englishman for the purposes of his financial claim under the War reparations scheme, since he was accepted as such by the British military authorities when he enlisted early in the War?
§ Mr. W. GRAHAMThe answer is in the negative. I would refer my hon. Friend to the terms of reference to the Royal Commission on Compensation for Suffering and Damage by Enemy Action and to paragraph 22 of their first report (Cmd. 1798 of 1923). The claim was also considered by the Commission for the Assessment of Damage suffered in Turkey, but was rejected as the claimant was not at the date of damage a national of any one of the contracting Powers to the convention on this subject, signed at Paris on 23rd November, 1923 (Cmd. 2028 of 1924).