IMPORTANT WAR MEASURES
FOOD SPECULATORS CONDEMNED. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) (Rec. May 16, 12.5 p.m.) WASHINGTON, May 15. The Senate passed the Espionage Bill without the censorship clause. There was a debate on the cost of living. Speakers denounced the food gamblers as parasites and pirates*-*who should be hanged. Mr Bryan has transferred to the American register"" all British shipping building in the United States, totalling a million tons. This will be used to carry supplies to the Allies. The Chicago board has prohibited wheat buying of futures for 48 hours, and fixed the price of July-September contracts at 275 to' 245. A panic followed, excited buyers tearing' -off each other's clothes.
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Nelson Evening Mail, 16 May 1917, Page 5
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