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Show 'many strange claims smith to iks Health of Goat Injured One I German Tells U. S. Army Officer f , i ! j AMERICAN H E A D Q U A RTJERS, COBLENZ, Germany. Jan. 21. Claims! for damages to streets, buildings,! : (arms and even individuals all rcput-' rcput-' ed to have been done by American j soldiers or American equipment of, (some kind since the army of occupa- I tion reached t.ie Rhine, aggregate I j something more than 5,000.000 marks.' Those allowed total approximately 250,000 marks. Many claims arc unique and some without any justification, A woman who contended that her' facia) appearance had been marred fori , II Te, owing to cuts caused by flying! 'glass due to an explosion at an am-' munition dump, sent in the modoKt ' claim for 250 marks. It was allowed Another woman, whose husband had 6ecn killed by an American military policeman who was chasing distributers distribu-ters of contraband liquor, submitted a claim to the Americans for 250.000 'marks, contending that her sole sup ;port had been taken away from her 1 The Americans maintained that the j 1 German had been killed by the American Ameri-can soldier who was acting within his I rights in line of duty. Tho claim was ' disapproved. Some of the claims are humorous Last summer, the J59th division borrowed bor-rowed a goat for a circus at its headquarters. head-quarters. Recently a claim was filed with the American town major asking ! damages on the contention that the health of the goat had been injured. This claim was pigeonholed ' A Rhinoland farmer recently demanded de-manded five marks for a bean pale al . leged to have been stolen by an American Amer-ican soldier. An army commission heard the case and threw out the claim on the ground there was no evi-1 dencc to show that an Amorican had committed the theft. nn . |