WAR LOSS IN TURKEY
BRITISH CLAIMANTS’ APPEAL [ Australian Press Assn. ] LONDON, Aug. 5. The Guardian’s Constantinople, correspondent says that British claimants for war damage in Turkey are finding that the Paris Reparations Commissions’ funds able to make payment of only 521 per cent, of their assessed claim for £2,000-000. They have telegraphed to the Foreign Office urging that they be given a lien on the surplus assets in the hands of the Public Trustee, amounting to £10,000,000, which, it is understood, the Government intends to credit the Reparation 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.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 72, Issue 186, 7 August 1929, Page 7
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