The United States.
ACTION BY THE AUTHORITIES.
Washington, August 21
The Senate passed the Bill creating a Bureau of War Risk Insurances, appropriating a million sterling to cover any losses.
' President Wilson has decided not to censor American cables yet, but ist strictly supervising wireless.
THE GERMAN CRUISER LEIPZIG.
Washington, August 22.
The State Department has ordered the, authorities at San Francisco to rofuso the steamer Mazatlan a cargo of coal, which, v it is believed, is intended for the German cruiser Leipzig, whoso whereabouts are unknown.
The United States has decided to relax wireless censorship and abandon cable censorship. This action is undertaken as a result of a protest by the German Charge a'Aifaires. The British Government agreed to the relaxation, provided that wireless messages, although in code, were definitely of a neutral character.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 5, 24 August 1914, Page 3
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135The United States. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXX, Issue 5, 24 August 1914, Page 3
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