WAR DAMAGE
BRITISH CLAIMS IN TURKEY
ONLY PARTIAL PAYMENT OF' CLAIMS
APPEAL TO FOREIGN' OFFICE"'
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(Received 6th August, 12.55. p.m.) ' ' LONDON, sth August, .r Tlio "Guardian's" Constantinople correspondent says British claimants torwar damage in Turkey are finding that the Paris Reparations Commission'*;funds enable payment of only 52£.'. p.Qt cent, of their assessed claims for £2,000,000. They have telegraphed, ilia Foreign Office urging that they be given a lien on surplus assets in the hands ofthe Public Trustee amounting to £lo.y 000,000 which it is understood the Gov* ernment intends to credit to' 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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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 6 August 1929, Page 5
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