AMERICAN RELIEF WORKERS IN BELGIUM TO REMAIN.
RELEASE OF AMERICAN SAILORS FROM YARROWDALE.
REPORTS RELIEVE TENSION IN THE UNITED STATES.
AuriraliM, and N.Z. Cablo. (Received 7 p.m.) LONDON. Feb. 17. It is officially stated that the Germans have now asked Americans engaged in relief work in Belgium to remain. The commission has consented, on the understanding that its activities are not restricted Germany still adheres to her demand that relief vessels should approach and leave Rotterdam by the North Sea route, which is 50 hazardous, owing to minefields, as to be almost impracticable. The result is that relief ships are held in port, while the position of the Belgians is becoming more critical.
A telegram from Berlin states that the American sailors on the Yarrowdale have been released, and handed over to the Dutch Minister to bo sent home by way of Spain.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.
The State Department has received no confirmation of a report that American sailors held by Germany have been released, nor has it received word' that permission has been granted to American relief workers to remain in Belgium, but press reports that these concessions have been made have relieved the tension for the immediate present
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16468, 19 February 1917, Page 7
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