4. Vice-Admiral CAMPBELLasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state what steps have been taken to recover the damages, amounting to £1,000, awarded Mr. Rupert Lambert on 1st April, 1930, against a Chilean subject for injuries received in a motor accident?
§ Sir J. SIMONHis Majesty's Ambassador at Santiago presented a full memorandum on this case to the Chilean Government on the 26th November last, urging that the judgment for £1,000 2559 damages awarded to Mr. Lambert against this Chilean subject should be met. No reply has as yet been received to these representations, but His Majesty's Ambassador has been instructed to keep the matter before the Chilean Government and to press for an early and satisfactory settlement of this claim.
Vice-Admiral CAMPBELLIn view of the fact that Mr. Lambert is still suffering from the very severe injuries he received and is unable to work, can the right hon. Gentleman ask some other Department of the Government to give consideration to this case and to grant relief pending the settlement of the negotiations?
§ Sir J. SIMONI cannot give an assurance on that subject, because it is quite different from the question on the Order Paper. I ought to explain that this gentleman brought his action against a Chilean subject and got his judgment. The foreigner, the Chilean, has gone out of this country. In the circumstances, the difficulty is a real one, but it is not a unique one. We are doing everything we possibly can to press his claim that the money be paid.