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Show SAILORS' FAMILIES GET GERMAN MONEY LONDON, pet. T. J. Havelock Wilson, member of parliament, Ken-ral Ken-ral president of the National Sail-1 or s and Firemen's union, has re-' cslved official notification from the treasury' that 6.000.000 of German' reparation money lies been finally earmarked for distribution among the dependents of 17,000 Itrltisli seam -n who were done to death by the Gcr-j man eink-at-blght submarine cam-! palgn. During th war merchant seaman oh unarmed ehtps did not rank for j pensions or compensation under nnyi naval conditions. Their work In man-i nlng food ships was accompanied With grtat loss of life, and the prim mln-Ister, mln-Ister, through Mr. Wilson, gave an I undertaking that In the event of vie- ' tory the first payment from German reparation me-ppy should be for com-j pensatlon to tho dependents of this , lass of namen. 00 |