AMERICAN MERCHANTMEN TO BE ARMED.
GUNNERS PROVIDED BY THE NAVY. GOVERNMENT ISSUES AN OFFICIAL NOTIFICATION. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received March 13, 8.55 a.m.) WASHINGTON, March 12. The State Depart ment has notified foreign diplomats that armed guards will henceforth be placed on all American ships sailing through the danger zone, and American Navy gunners provided on both passenger and munition ships. The State Department makes a complete change of front regarding the status of merchantmen, now holding that they do not become warships in any sense though they are armed.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume IV, Issue 963, 13 March 1917, Page 7
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