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The Manitowoc Pilot
Manitowoc, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin
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Walker D. Hines, arbitrator under the peace treaty, awards France 13.5% of Germany's Rhine fleet (253,000 tons of barges and tugs), controlling interest in Rhenel company, and Rotterdam port installations. France will offset value against reparations; final selection after Feb. 10 hearing.
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Germany Must Cede 13.5 Per Cent of Her Rhine Fleet.
DECISION MADE BY YANKEE
Award by Walker D. Hines, Former United States Director General of Railroads, Is Final and Cannot Be Appealed.
Paris, Jan. 11.—Walker D. Hines, former United States director general of railroads, now arbitrator in the distribution of German inland shipping under the peace treaty, has awarded France 13½ per cent of Germany's Rhine fleet.
France is given 253,000 tons of barges and tugs with a capacity of 24,000 horsepower. The award is final and cannot be appealed.
Mr. Hines' decision also requires Germany to cede to France controlling interest in the shares of what is known as the Rhenel company, one of the principal German Rhine navigation companies.
Repartition of the Rhine fleet between France and Germany is, aside from the portion of the German river fleet, to be given to the allied and associated nations as reparation for river shipping lost by them during the war.
A small series of port installations at Rotterdam belonging to the Rhenische company, a German corporation, also are awarded to France.
Under the treaty France is to pay for the property received by setting off the value fixed by the arbitrator against the sum total of reparations due France from Germany. This amount will be determined by Mr. Hines after the hearing on February 10. Then Mr. Hines will select the tugs and barges to be turned over to France.
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Jan. 11
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france awarded 13.5 per cent of germany's rhine fleet (253,000 tons of barges and tugs with 24,000 horsepower capacity), controlling interest in rhenel company shares, and port installations at rotterdam from rhenische company. award final and non-appealable; value to be offset against reparations, determined after february 10 hearing.
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Walker D. Hines, arbitrator for German inland shipping distribution under peace treaty, awards France portion of Rhine fleet as reparation. Repartition excludes portions for allied nations' war losses. France pays by crediting against reparations due from Germany.