AMERICAN MEASURES
TO PREVENT SHIPMENTS OP CONTRABAND London, December 21. The "Manchester Guardian" sayß the United States Government has drafted a Bill providing for fines or imprisonment on those violating neutrality. Hitherto the authorities were unc.ble to prosecute American shipowner:, for sending coal and provisions to German warships. Cargoes of cotton destined for Germany were also found to contain copper and other contraband. Such violations have already rendered .the United States liable to pay heavy damages to Britain and her Allies. The Bill enables the Government to examine vessels leaving American, ports to ascertain that they only carry what the manifest states, thus largely dispensing with the present surveillance by the Allied warships.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2340, 23 December 1914, Page 5
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113AMERICAN MEASURES Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2340, 23 December 1914, Page 5
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