The total number of claims filed amounted on 15th August to 637, the total amount of compensation claimed for which amounted to £266,237 : 19 : 4.

Since 15th August other claims have been filed bringing the total number up to about 800 for losses sustained in Matabeleland alone.

The total amount of compensation which will be paid by the Chartered Company in settlement of these claims will, it is thought, reach the sum of £230,000.

APPENDIX F

Schedule showing the number of Native Policemen in the employ of the Government throughout Matabeleland, at the time of the outbreak of the rebellion, and the proportion of the same which remained loyal in the different districts.

Station.Loyal.Rebels.Doubtful.
Headquarters60
45. . .15
Bulawayodistrict30
1515. . .
Bulilima"30
282. . .
Umzingwani"30
1119. . .
Mangwe"30
624. . .
Usiza"30
228. . .
Gwanda"30
18. . .12
Belingwe"30
Nil.255
Gwelo"30
Nil.30. . .
Bubi"30
129. . .
Total330
12617232

These figures must be taken as only approximate, as it is known that three or four of the police were killed by the rebels, and it is doubtful whether others did not meet the same fate. It will not be known exactly what number of the police were murdered by the rebels until the war is over.

For these statistics I am indebted to Mr. H. Morrison Jackson, the native commissioner, who was living on my company's property of Essexvale.