§ Colonel YATEasked the Secretary of State for India why officers of the Royal Indian Marine, transferred to the Army in the interests of the State and who qualified for gratuity as officers of the Royal Engineers (Inland Water Transport), have been refused the gratuity due to them under a ruling of the Government of India that the gratuity is to be determined by the rank held by the officer in the Royal Indian Marine previous to his transfer and not by the Army rank that he rose to in the War; and whether that ruling will now be cancelled?
§ Mr. MONTAGUInstructions were issued to the Government of India on the 14th October to amend the ruling so far as it concerned regular officers. In the case of temporary officers gratuity at Royal Indian Marine rates is usually better than Army gratuity, but the Government of India have now been told that the officers may have the better of the two.