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The Arbitration of the Sabotage Claims Against Germany
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 April 2017
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- Copyright © by the American Society of International Law 1939
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1 The Commission, established under the Claims Agreement of Aug. 10,1922, is composed of Mr. Justice Owen J. Roberts, of the United States Supreme Court, Umpire; Col. Christopher B. Garnett, American Commissioner; and Dr. Victor L. F. Huecking, German Commissioner, retired March 1, 1939.
2 For the decision of the Umpire see this Journal, infra, p. 770.
3 This evidence included a secret message written with lemon juice in code in a magazine by an admitted German sabotage agent and transmitted by him in April, 1917, from Mexico to a co-saboteur in Baltimore, which message implicated them in the destruction of the “Jersey City Terminal” (Black Tom) and “Kingsland.”
4 Among this evidence was a copy of a German report dated April, 1917, found in the archives of the Austrian Government in 1935, saying in translation that: “According to the latest news twenty-one more munition factories have been blown up” including the Kings- land and Dupont plants. It continued: “Still further surprises are said to be impending.”
5 In the evidence produced was a letter from one of the chief defense witnesses to another German agent implicated in both destructions. This witness had repeatedly denied any knowledge of sabotage matters or of sabotage agents, but this letter clearly showed his full knowledge and complicity.
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