AMERICAN EXPORTERS' PROTEST

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 3 December 1914, Page 7

AMERICAN EXPORTERS' PROTEST

! (Received Dec. 3, 2.15 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. American exporters, chiefly beef packers, have protested against the British authorities examining cargoes en route for Europe. Sir C. A. Spring-Rice and Mr Lamsing discussed the question, Sir C. Spring-Rice pointing out that Germany was receiving large supplies through neutral countries. However, if American ships exhibited a manifest show-j ing where and to whom the goods were consigned, the ships would be relieved of unnecessary searches. The State Department takes up the attitude that even semi-contraband goods, when carried in neutral bottoms to neutral countries, are exempt from search. No agreement has yet been reached.