Uruguay seized German merchant ships in 1917 according to the Dutch newspaper Het Vaderland dated 4 July 1926

An item dated Paris 3 July reported that the Reparations Commission spoke with the Uruguayan representative at Paris Guani about the German ships in 1917 seized by his country.(1)

The edition dated 14 March 1927 published an item dated New York 13 March reporting that the Uruguayan cabinet handed over to the British firm the former German ships which were seized during the First World War. These ships were to be sold on behalf of the British cabinet and the benefits to be acquitted with the German reparations account.

Note

1. Probably Alberto Guani (1877 Montevideo-1956 Montevideo), Uruguayan diplomat who served in Austra-Hungary and Switzerland in 1911, in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1913 and later in France between 1925 and 1926 and in the United Kingdom between 1936 and 1938 and who was between 1938 and 1943 minister for foreign affairs and between 1943 and 1947 vice president.