§ Sir A. SPROTasked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that the skipper-owner of the motor boat "Janet Ovenstone" (M.L. 264) with his crew were fishing 12 miles east-north-east from the River Tyne on the 26th July, 1916, when the boat was rammed, bombed, and sunk by the German submarine U.B. 32, the crew were taken abroad the submarine for 9½ hours, then transferred to the Norwegian steamer "Polly," registered port Bergen, and landed at Grimsby, and that, although forms have been filled up and sent in claiming reparation on account of the above, nothing has yet been received; and if there is any prospect of this matter being attended to?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the last part, the claims referred to are being dealt with, together with numerous other similar claims, in the manner explained by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury in Committee of Supply on the 23rd February.