Lieut.-Colonel BUCKLEYasked the Secretary of State for War whether he is aware that Mrs. Chapman, of 47, Elizabeth Road, Orrell, near Liverpool, wife of Company-quartermaster-sergeant Chapman, 2nd battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment, was recently granted permission to join her husband who is stationed at Khartoum; that the papers granting permission reached her on 3rd March: that on 4th March she sold up her homo; that on 5th March she received a telegram cancelling the permit; and that on 6th March she received a letter confirming the telegram and asking her to return all the papers as there had been a mistake; and whether he will grant this lady some allowance, in view of the inconvenience she has been put to, and ensure that she receives travelling facilities at the earliest possible moment?
Sir A. WILLIAIMSONWhen the permit was granted the regiment was 2039W at Cairo, where available accommodation for the family existed. It then was moved to Khartoum where there was no available accommodation, and the permit consequently was withdrawn. I am sorry to find that this was not at once notified to Mrs. Chapman. I am willing to consider the question of compensation for the unavoidable expenses to which she has been put.