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Show oo AMERICAN BORN WIVES GIVEN SEIZED PROPERTY: WASHINGTON", Jan. 21. Approximately Approx-imately $11 7.000 000 tvorth of property proper-ty taken oer by the alien property custodian dining the war has heen returned re-turned to American born wives of,J Germans. Austrlans and others. It Wasll said today at the ruetodian's office The return were made under a re-j cent act of congress which permitted women who before the war married subjects of enemy countries and citj ens of countries since separated from Austria-Hungary, such as Cseoho-Uo-SkJa to Hie claims for their propert in this country seized by th. government govern-ment under the trading with the enemy ene-my act The lolnl value of enemv propertj taken over bv the property custodian Is placed at 614,0tf0,000 and this isj exclusive of the Interned German merchant mer-chant ships seized in American port |