SHIP PURCHASE BILL
ALLIES MAKE UNITED PROTEST. (TIMES AND SYDNEY SUN SERVICES.) LONDON, Ist February. Great Britain, France, and Russia have formally notified the United States of their opposition to the transfer from the original registry of vessels belonging to belligerents. [It was recently stated that President Wilson was determined to push through the Ship Purchase Bill. The Democratic opposition to the Bill in the Senate collapsed, a caucus having decided to support the measure. Mr. W. C. Bedfield, Secretary to the Department of Commerce, in addressing a national convention of foreign trade, said that it had been advertised all over the United States that there would be trouble if the Government bought German ships. The enemies of Germany would regard them as Germans, and they would be declared as interned. He added that in the United States opinion was strongly averse to the Government buying ships in toto, and handing over between six and nine million pounds, which would mean giving a great direct assistance to one of the belligerents, and might readily be construed as a direct breach of neutrality.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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182SHIP PURCHASE BILL Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27, 2 February 1915, Page 7
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