Eight Deaths Due to illness: Six' to Accidents: The Question of Pefision London, July 26.
Replying to questions ip the House of Commons to-day Captain King, Financial Secretary to the War Office, said that up to the present there had been 12. deaths among the British and two Jamong the Indian troops of the Shanghai Defence Force. Eight deaths had been due to illness, the rest to accidents and wounds." He would, he eaid, ask the Earl of Birkenhead, Secretary of State for India, whether a pension were being' granted to any Indian cases.
Replying to 2 question whether cases of fever and pneumonia, ete., were regarded as pensionable, Captain King said that it depended upon the result of an me quiry into each case. He was not able to give a general undertaking.
No Extra Taxation for Shaforce
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