Shelling of Papeete
CLAIM AGAINST GERMANa By Telegraph—Per Press AwocUtiai. Auckland, October 17. Maxwell, Young and Co., have received letters from Papt-cte which state' that the French Government has issued a notice that it will claiai against German property at Tahiti and adjacent is.ands inder the French flag 1,000,000 rrancs (i.. 1 £40,000) to help indemnify Hie lossr; caused ,by the shelling of Papeete, ne Societo Commerciale de b'Oceani is the principal German house iUlected. Its headquarters are at Hamburg, and its interests in the Eastern I Pacific ar ■ worth at normal times more khan l,Oi->,OOO francs.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 124, 19 October 1914, Page 8
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97Shelling of Papeete Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 124, 19 October 1914, Page 8
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