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Show LUSITArJIA LOSS IS DETERMINED IN MEETING OF COMMITTEE THE TOTAL FIXED TO BE PAID AGGREGATE BIG SUM Damages For Sinking Of American Vessel During World War Must Be Met; Will Receive Money From German Government Washington. Germany must pay American claimants $2,409,413 for damages suffered when the giant transatlantic liner Lusitania was torpedoed tor-pedoed and Bunk by a U-boat, it was I announced by the German-American mixed claims committee. At the same time the commission made public 39S awards aggregating $13,140,059 and announced dismissal of 192 claims. Disposition of five Lusitania cases three by the award of $74,827 in damages dam-ages and two by dismissal terminated termin-ated the consideration of pending claims arising out of the torpedoing of the liner. The 398 awards of all sorts against Germany growing out of the war, made public, varied from one of $9.20 for John Malina of Cicero, Ci-cero, 111., to another of $4,750,000 for the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. Leading financial institutions like the National City bank of New York and inconspicious American citizens cit-izens like Margaret S. Macleay of Manchester, N. H., who received $10, were listed among the beneficiaries. In the great majority of cases the amount of the award was agreed upon up-on between Chandler P. Anderson and Wilhelm Klesselbach, the American and the German commissioners, while In some the umpire was called upon to decide between the conflicting opinions. |