ESPIONAGE BILL
PASSED BY AMERICAN SENATE
SOME STRINGENT REGULATIONS,
(AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOCIATION.) Received February 22, 8.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, 21st February. The Senate Jias passed the Espionage Bill. (REUTEIt'S TELEORAM.) WASHINGTON, 21st February. The Espionage Bill authorises the President to use the armed forces to enforce the neutrality regulations, and provides that the selling of codes, signal books, and models of aeroplanes to a foreign Government in peace time is punishable by twenty years' imprisonment, and in wac time by imprisonment for life. Persons communicating to an enemy .prohibited, news of movements of forces are liable to be sentenced to death or to terms of imprisonment ranging from iivo to thirty years. The Act also authorises the seizure of munitions ships destined to the enemy of a nation with which America is at peace.
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 46, 22 February 1917, Page 7
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134ESPIONAGE BILL Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 46, 22 February 1917, Page 7
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