The San Francisco call., 1901-10-29
ENGLAND MAKES
GENERAL TERMS
Settles Claims Of Those
Who Suffered Loss
by Boer War.
Some of the American Claim
ants Have Not Been
Naturalized.

LONDON. Oct. 2S.-At the resumption
of the sitting of the South African Com
pensation Commission to-day, Major Gen.
eral Sir John G. Ardagh, on behalf of the
Government, announced that all claims Of
foreign countries had been settled diplG
matically, with the exception GS ssess
of the Netherlands and France, as fol-
lows:
The United States, e6OOO; Austria, e15,-
GG0; Germany, 5000 Russia, E410O; Italy
912,0 900; Spain, 2150; Sweden and Norway,
E1OO0; Switzerland, $3.50; Belgium, 9S00.
and Denmark, ESQ.
1t is expected that the claims of France
and the Netherlands will be settled this
week.
General Ardagh said the Government
has consented 20 an amicable settlements
on the ground that the claimants had
suffered individual hardSh1pS and loss Tor
which they were entitled to considera-
ton, although they might fail to substan-
tiate legal claims. The sums awarded
Will be distributed to the claimants. BY
their respective governments.
Newton Crane, who represents the
United States before the commission re-
CARDS the settlement as most favorable
for the American claimants, OF whom
there are only fifteen. The average, afteT
the expenses are deducted, will be 1888
for the Americans, against &63 for the
claimants of other countries: All the
American claimants will not share equal
ly, as some of them have not been natu-
rallied and others have fought for the
Beers.
''The terms are generous said Crane.
'inasmuch as TO court would have COM
PEELED Great Britain to pay the money.
The amount is IA per cent of the claims,
while the award under the treaty o,
Washington to British subjects who suf-
fered through the Civil War was per
cent.
O ! I |; + D
struct your captains to look out for the Span
IT do not recall that 1 did, but orders were
usually sgnaled to keep a bright lookout ana
Ibid YOU before meeting the scouts off San
tiago contemplate going to the coast of HaytiT'
asked Captain Lemly.
mo; 1 did not
''You had uD to that time intended to 60
II had thought that would be Of the
rendezvous might have to resort to outside
.'Do YOU remember any message megaphoned
to any one before leaving Cienfuegos about
going TO Hayt?
=. II do not recollect any
II VIII make it more q,e9 explicit and say about
"I do not remember megaphoning that mes
e s7Did you ask the department by telegraph
Yes. 1 did: and they replied they would
be sent. -. =. ,,,,, .,a
IT would have sent perhaps two ships.
6 ship m9Te W @on a be able to solve the prob
lem of coaling in the open sea-
on account Of the contracted room Of the har-
bor7'' rr.,--.- D..
Captain Cotton informed me tnat only small
vessels could coal there l intended to coal
OF the coast outside the marine limit Ny
impression is now that Captain Cotton reported
to me and the purport OF the information
Contracted and would admit OF the coaling only
"Did not he say large vessels could coal
there, but not more than one at timer
He may have said that in his evidence. but
I do not remember that he communicated that
about that time which I think will make the
matter clear. My recollection OF that COM
munication now is that 1t referred entirely
the coaling of sGaller vessels. l do not see
here docking at the log he held in his hand.
Hsyti COAST sf in ths teegra@ Of May IS the
reason 1 say that is because the impression
left by the communication of Captain Cotton
upon my mind that the ports of both
Gonaives and Mole St Nicholas. Hayti q
that nothing but small vessels could coal
C,antain Iemly-May 2S This was after the
turn back from the westerly movement?''
yes but this something do not really
remember lust the time when a this his, c4mmunica f a.
Gonaives or coast near or in the vicinity of
Port au Prince to coal. That was after we
had repaired the collier and had gone back
Captain Gemly-You Indicated several places
Gonaives?'' ave ''-
well. when our coal supply was reduced
so dS 10 IOTCc US.
''Then you concluded you could coal at
Gonaives -
There is mere play upon words between
the port and the coast -
The admiral, in reply to Captain Lemly, fur
ther said that he had said nothing in his dis
patch of May 20 about taking one vessel at
a time to Hayti for coal
THAT goes without saying, he added. be
cause when one is blockading port he could
not entirely abandon it and take all his ships
away to coal them at one time. Evidently
only one vessel would have been taken away
at time for coaling purposes"
At o'clock the court adjourned.