REPARATIONS
REPABATIONS CLAIMS
Press Association.—By Electrn Telegraph.—Copyright.)
(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.' LONDON, Aug. 5. The “Guardian’s” Constantinople correspondent says British claimants for war damages in Turkey are finding that the Paris Reparations Commission funds enable the payment of only fiftytwo and a-lialf per cent, of their assessed claim for two millions sterling. They have telegraphed the Foreign Office urging that they be given a lien on surplus assets in the hnmS’s of the Public Trustee amounting to a million sterling, which it is understood the Government intends to credit to the Reparations fund. They base the claim on the Versailles Treaty, by which Germany undertakes to compensate fully the damages to Allied nationals in countries of her Allies.
READY FOR CONFERENCE.
(Received this day at 12.25. p.m.) ~ HAGUE, Aug'. 5.
Delegations for the Reparations Conference poured in all day. Practically everybody,.lias arrived for the Conference which will .be non-committally known as the Hague Conference 1929, thus eliminating all reference to Reparations and Rhineland.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 August 1929, Page 5
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