AGAINST BRITAIN.
U.S. NEUTRALITY ACT.
Protest By London Chamber
Of Shipping. SPECIAL REQUIREMENT. United Ifrea« Association.—Copyright. (Received 2 p.m.) NEW YORK, January 10. The Washington correspondent of the Associated Press reports that Britain has protested to the United States that the Neutrality Act discriminates against British ships. The Embassy presented the protest on behalf of the Chamber of Shipping, London, stressing that the Act requires transfer of the title to goods carried by British or other belligerent vessels to certain portions of the globe, but there is no similar requirement regarding neutral vessels. The point ie made that the transfer requirement aids neutral ships to the disadvantage of British vessels. A practical working out of the Act is given in this way. A Dutch freighter could load a cargo at New York, consigned to Halifax, Nova 'Scotia, without transfer of title from the American producer to the foreign purchaser, but a transfer would be compulsory if the v e*sel were British.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 9, 11 January 1940, Page 7
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