CO129-465 - Public Offices & Others - 1920 — Page 517

Telophore Grand 3410.

Telegrama:

PADOMAR, St. James, LUNDON,"

Any further communication on this subject should be addressed to The Secretary to the Managing Board.

The following mumber should be quoted:

R..S. 185/20

Form 8 (R.M.S.213)

MARITIME SERVICE OF THE REPARATION COMMISSION,

BRIDGEWATER HOUSE,

ST. JAMES'S, S.W. 1.

11th May. 1920.

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sir,

with reference to your letter dated 8th May 1930 (Ref. 22088/20)

relative to a claim for reparation for losses sustained

during the war, I am directed by the Managing Board of

the above Service to inform you that the claims mentioned

in the Notice which was published by the Reparation

Commission on April 15th 1920 referring to the application

of Paragraph 20 of Annex II of Part VIII of the Treaty of

Versailles, are not connected in any way with losses by

Enemy action. The Notice relates solely to claims under the

above paragraph by persons or corporations who consider they

have legal or equitable interests in individual vessels

deliverable by the German Government under the Treaty of

Versailles,

I am to add that any question relating to losses

incurred in Mercantile shipping owing to the war, is a

matter for the Government of the country under whose flag

the lost vessel was at the time of loss.

Communications on such questions should not be addressed

to the Maritime Service nor to the Reparation Commission.

I am, Sir,

Your obedient Servant,

ocêhapman.