Colonel ALEXANDERasked the Prime Minister whether any cases in connection with claims under Article 297 for compensation for the seizure of British property, rights, and interests in Germany have yet been heard by the Anglo-German mixed arbitral tribunal; and, if so, what has been the result?
§ Viscount WOLMERI have been asked to reply. Fifty-three judgments after 1889W trial have been given by the Anglo-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal in respect of claims for compensation under paragraph (e) of Article 297 of the Treaty of Versailles, and, in addition, over 2,500 claims have been settled by agrement and confirmed by formal judgments of the tribunal. The total amount of compensation awarded either after trial or by agreement between the parties to date is £3,382,494.
Colonel ALEXANDERasked the Prime Minister (1), the number of sittings held by the Anglo-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal during the course of the present year;
(2), whether he is aware that the great delay in settling compensation cases by the Anglo-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal is due to pressure of work upon the members of that body; and when will steps be taken to increase the membership of the tribunal with a view to remedying a state of affairs which is very prejudicial to British commercial interests?
§ Viscount WOLMERI have been asked to reply. The Anglo-German Mixed Arbitral Tribunal has sat on 35 occasions to hear cases during the present year. The agreement of the German Government has now been obtained to the constitution of a second division of the tribunal, which will commence its sittings immediately after the Long Vacation.