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CLAIM. POE POSSESSION, DISPUTE BETWEEN BRITAIN AND UNITED STATES. (Per United Press Association.) WASHINGTON, August 24. The British Embassy has notified the State Department that a claim for damages will he made against the United States Government because of its re' fusal to surrender promptly to Britain eight ex-German liners, including tho Imperator. The iriltial claim is for the actual loss incurred in maintaining crews in New York awaiting the ships’ surrender. The United States Shipping Board held the vessels because Britain held nine tankers on the grounds that they were captured in German ports. When the question became acute. President Wilson ordered the vessels to be turned over to England.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160739, 27 August 1920, Page 2
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113EX-GERMAN LINERS Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 160739, 27 August 1920, Page 2
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