U.S.A. TORPEDO-BOATS
TRANSFER TO BRITAIN CANCELLED.
RULING BY ATTORNEY-GENERAL.
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright (Received This Day. 12.50 p.m.) ' WASHINGTON. June 24.
President Roosevelt ordered Mr Edison to cancel the transaction for the transfer of twenty torpedo-boats to Britain as a result of the AttorneyGeneral’s opinion that it would be illegal in light of a 1917 statute specifically prohibiting the sending from American jurisdiction of “any vessel built as a vessel of war. with any intent or under any agreement that such vessel shall be delivered to a belligerent nation."
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 6
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