CAPTURED ENEMY SHIPS

Evening Star, Issue 25672, 21 December 1945, Page 6

CAPTURED ENEMY SHIPS

QUESTION OF PRIZE MONEY LONDON, December 19. The First Lord of the Admiralty (Mr A. V. Alexander) stated in the House of Commons that it had been decided that prize-money in,repeat of proceeds from the sale of captured enemy merchant ships .and cargoes, which was traditionally granted to the Navy, should again be granted, but the grant of a prize bounty should not be made. This grant is paid to officers and crow of such ships as are actually present at the capture or destruction of enemy warships. Mr Alexander said that in the Government’s view such a grant was inappropriate under modern conditions of war and should he regarded as obsolete. The Dominion and Indian Governments concurred in principle with this'decision.' Mr Alexander added that it was the Government’s intention that a proportion of the proceeds should be allocated for the benefit of members of the Air Force. He added that the Government, so far as the United Kingdom forces were concerned, decided that this was the last occasion on which prize-money should be paid.