WAR SUFFERERS
BELGIAN CLAIMS AGAINST GERMANY. FAR-REACHING CASE OPENS. Pres* Association—By Telegraph—Copyright PARIS, January 8 The hearing of the case in which ten Belgians are suing the German Government for compensation for ill-treatment when they were deported during the war has been opened before a mixed Arbitra tion Tribunal, established under the Peace Treaty. The court is composed of three judges—a Swiss, a Belgian, and a Ge>man. The decision will affect 80 ; 000 Belgian deportees, and it may be invoked as a precedent by 250,000 French people,—A. and N.Z. Cable. A message published on Decemebr 61 stated that 80,000 Belgians, who suffered deportation and other hardships during the war, were claiming damages from Germany before an International Court
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19065, 10 January 1924, Page 7
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