GREAT WAR DISASTERS
AWARDS IN AMERICA GERMAN REPUDIATION (Reed. Oct. 31. 2.50 p.m.) NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Mr. Justice O. Roberts of the United States Supreme Court, the impartial umpire of German-American Mixed Claims Commission, disregarding an emphatic protest from Berlin, awarded £10.000.000 in claims arising out of the Black Tom and Kingsland disasters in the Great War. In view of the German repudiation, the claimants are likely to divide only £5,150,000 that Germany lias already deposited with.the United States’ Treasury .
The Kingsland and Black Tom munition factories were two of 21 factories which, it was alleged, were sabotaged by German agents prior to America's entry into the Great War.
The commission had previously found in favour of Germany, on the ground that the American claim of German responsibility for these disasters was “not proven.’’ Additional information discovered in Austrian archives by Dr. Otto Ernst, a Hungarian historian, implicating the German High Command in the exnlosions at the Kingsland and Black Tom plants, led to the reopening last January of tHC investigation bv the German-American Mixed Claims Commission.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20083, 1 November 1939, Page 11
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