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This was the famed "Black Tom Disaster." A year later came the "Kingsland Disaster." and both were attributed to "German agents." Last week at The Hague the German-American Mixed Claims Commission, set up in 1922 and consisting of a German Commissioner, a U. S. Commissioner and a U. S. umpire, rendered decision upon the U. S. Government's claim against the German Government for $40.000.000 compensation (TIME, Oct. 6). Ruled the Commission...
...Kingsland case we find upon the evidence that the fire was not caused by German agents. ... In the Black Tom case we are ... quite a long way from being convinced that the fire was caused by any German agents. We therefore decide both cases in favor of Germany...
...Hole-Man & Kitchener. As the Commission last week pondered testimony and considered the U. S. claim that Germany ought to pay $40,000,000 compensation for Black Tom and Kingsland, cables told that Death had come to a London youth, whose trade was repairing holes gnawed by wharf rats...
...German agents did blow up the Cyclops, that was their right-the U. S. was then in the War. But if German agents blew up Lehigh Valley R. R.'s Black Tom Terminal (July 29, 1916) and Canadian Car & Foundry Co.'s Kingsland Assemblying Plant (Jan. 11, 1917), that was not their right and Germany must pay $25,000,000 damages, for the U. S. was then neutral. Last fortnight the New York Evening Post obtained access to and published some of the evidence to be filed by the U. S. in a suit U. S. v. Germany...
Married. Princess Marie Louise d'Orleans, daughter of the Duc de Vendôme, niece of King Albert of Belgium; to Walter F. Kingsland Jr. of Manhattan & Paris; in Chichester, England. Curious secrecy, many detectives, surrounded the little vine-covered church. The bridegroom, as well as the 30 guests, presented a card for admittance...