9. Mr. ALLENasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he has any progress to report as to the settlement of claims by British subjects on the Government of Nicaragua in respect of damage to their property during the recent civil disturbances in that country?
Mr. A. HENDERSONIn accordance with the terms of the decree setting up the new Nicaraguan Commission to assess these claims, the claims could not be presented to the Commission until 10 days after the publication by the Commission of its rules of procedure. His Majesty's Government have now received a text of the rules from His Majesty's representative at Managua, from which it appears that they were published on the 24th October last, so that it may be inferred that the claims are now being studied by the Commission.