ESPIONAGE BILL
PASSED BY AMERICAN SENATE, COMPREHENSIVE PROVI[AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. CABUi ASSOCIATION.] Received this day at 8.45 a.m. WASHINGTON, [February '2l. The Senate passed an' Espionage Bill, which authorises the President to use armed force's to enforce the neutrality regulation. It provides that the selling of codes, signal books, and models of aeroplanes to a foreign Government in peace time shall be punishable by twenty years' imprisonment, arid in war time by imprisonment for^life. Persons communicating to i 1 enemy prohibited news of the movements of the forces are punishable by death or five and thirty years' imprisonment. It also authorises the seizure of munition ships destined to the' enemy of a nation wherewith America is at peace.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1917, Page 6
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118ESPIONAGE BILL Greymouth Evening Star, 22 February 1917, Page 6
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