§ Mr. STEPHEN COLLINSasked the Under-Secretary of State for War, whether Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant Stickney, of the Army Ordnance Corps, and his wife bad made claims for compensation on account of ill-treatment alleged to have been received from Army officers in South Africa; whether such claims have been paid; and, if not, will be explain why this has not been done?
§ Colonel SEELYClaims for compensation have been made, as stated in the question, but have not been paid, as there were no grounds for entertaining them.
Mr. POINTERasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether he is aware the Staff Quartermaster-Sergeant Stickney, of the Army Ordnance Corps, made a statutory declaration under the Vaccination Act, 1907, and Sections 127 and 128 of the Army Act, at Roberts Heights, South Africa, on 26th January, 1912; and whether he will issue a form of the declaration in a Special Army Order, and embody the pro forma in the King's Regulations for the information of soldiers on foreign service?
§ Colonel SEELYNothing is known at the War Office of any declaration mentioned in the first part of the question, and in any case it would not affect the regulations regarding the occupancy of barracks by unvaccinated persons. There is no intention of adopting the suggestion mentioned in the last part of the question.