AFTERMATH OF WAR
CIVILIANS’ HUGE CLAIM SUM OF £44,000,000 DAMAGES EAST COAST BOMBARDMENT. (United Press Association —By Electric Telegrapn Copyright.) Received 12 noon to-day. LONDON. Jiam. 11. A preliminary skirmish in a battle between private citizens and the Crown, m which £44, OCX),(XX) is at stake, j,s expected this week. It is a test case in a -petition oi right in which the Civilian Wsair Claimants’ Association is seeking eompemsiatiom out of German reparations for injury and loss due to German attacks, uotably the bombardments of Scarborough, Whitby and Hartlepool, whereby 100 civilians were killed and. 500 injured.
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Hawera Star, 13 January 1930, Page 9
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