Colonel NEWMANasked the Secretary of State for War whether he will consider the granting of a gratuity to those cable censors who, though they served on the cable censorship under military law for two or three years, have been refused any gratuity on the ground that they were not gazetted as such, and that therefore they do not come under Royal Warrants 496 and 497, although they did exactly the same work and were placed under military law during their tour of 2043W service; and, if these cannot be included under Royal Warrants 496 and 497, whether he will consider the granting to them of a gratuity commensurate with their length of service as all other war workers have been granted?
§ Sir A. WILLIAMSONThe cable censors who were not gazetted served in a purely civilian capacity and are consequently ineligible for the gratuities provided for officers. The suggestion that a gratuity has been given to all other war workers is not in accordance with the facts.