REPARATIONS.
WAR DAMAGES IN TURKEY. BRITISH CLAIMANTS* REQUEST. (usrrsD press association—bt electric TKLEOBAPH—COPYRIGHT.) LONDON, August 5. Tho Constantinople correspondent of the "Manchester Guardian" says that British claimants for war damages in Turkey are finding that the Paris Reparations Commission's funds enable payment of only 52$ per cent, of their assessed claim for £2.000,000 They have telegraphed the Foreign Office urging that they be given a lien on surplus assets in the hands of the Public Trustee, amounting to £10,000.000, which, it is understood, the Government intends to credit to the Reparations Fund They base their claim on the Versailles Treaty, by which Germany undertakes to compensate fully damages to Allied nationals in the countries of her Allies. —United Service.
THE HAGUE CONFERENCE. THE HAGUE, August 5. Delegations for the Reparations Conference have poured in all day. Practically everybody has arrived for the conference, which will be noncommittally known as the Hague Conference of 1929, thus eliminating all reference to Reparations and the Rhineland.—"The Times" Cables.
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 11
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165REPARATIONS. Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19691, 7 August 1929, Page 11
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