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GERMAN RULE IN BELGIUM. iVjss Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association, (Received 8.5 d a.m.) Washington, September. 17. Count Bernstorff has informed the State Department that in view of Belgium trying to arrange a loan with American bankers, giving as security the Belgium State railway s, Germany will consider such loan null and void during the German occupation of Belgium unless Germany’s consent is secured. .The State Department has no details of such a loan, and says it recognises German rule in Belgium as do facto the authority with temporary powers. ADDITION TO THE ATLANTIC FLEET. COMPLETION OF A DREADNOUGHT. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.25. a.m.) Washington, September 17. The United States has completed the Dreadnought Arizona, which will lie commissioned in October. The Atlantic Fleet will then include six 1-1-inch and live 12-iuch dreadnoughts. NiGARAGUAN CANAL. CRISIS DUE TO CEC'S!ON OF RIGHTS TO U. S. A. (Received 9.2-7 a.m.) Washington, September HA crisis is reported in Nicaragua owing to the opposition of the iepnblics of Costa Ilica, Honduras, and ‘Salvador to the treaty between the I'nited Stales ami Nicaragua, where-
by Nicaragua lias ceded the United States the. rights of, the construction of a canal and also a naval base in the Gulf of Fonseca, and thus enable the United States to protect Panama. America Is watching the situation closely, and two cruisers are now in Nicaraguan waters. MAJ L-SE ARCH <NC PROTEST TO BRITAIN. Press Association —Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.45 a.m.) Washington, September 17. The Foiled States has protested to Britain against the opening by the censor of the Vancouver-United States official mail from naval officers in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 43, 18 September 1916, Page 5
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