Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1914-11-20
PROTECT CANAL ZONE
RECENT PROCLAMATION OF OUR
PRESIDENT RESTRICTS MA
TIoNs OF WORLDS WAR.
CRAFT OF THE AIR PROHIBITED
Many New Shipping Rules Made-oniy
Six Warships Of Same Power
May Be in Territory at Same
Time-All Treated Alike.

Washington.-Pres Wilson Sat
urday issued proclamation to sup
plement the existing regulations for
preservation of neutrality in the Pan
anna canal and the Panama canal zone
during the European war.
The proclamation extends its prohi-
billions to aircraft, public or private,
of belligerent powers, which are for
hidden to rise from or descend upon
canal zone territory or to "pass
through the air spaces above" the
land or water of the one. 1t also for
bids any use of wireless telegraph by
belligerent vessels within zone juris-
diction except on business in connec-
ton with the canal.
Accompanying the proclamation is
an agreement between the state de-
partment and the minister from Pan
anna, E. A. Morales, concluded October
10. 1t provides that hostility extended
In the waters of the Panama republic
to vessel in the service of bel
ligerent power shall serve to deprive
such vessel of like hospitality in the
Panama canal zone for a period Of
three months, and vice versa.
May Not Land Troops.
Belligerent powers are forbidden by
the proclamation to embark or olsen.
bark troops, war munitions or warlike
materials in the zone, except in case
of necessity due to accident. Belliger-
emit vessels are not to remain in the
canal zone territorial waters longer
than "a hours at time except when
in distress, and the old requirement of
"a hours between departures of oppos-
ing belligerent ships is retained
Only in case of actual distress and
to make a vessel seaworthy may the
United States repair facilities and
docks be used by belligerent ships, and
the work must be done speedily, under
supervision of canal authorities.
Except by special arrangement there
shall not be at any one time more
than three war vessels of any one
nation, including those of allies, in
either terminal port or it's adjacent
territorial waters, or more than three
such vessels in transit through the
canal, or more than six at one time in
all the territorial waters of the zone.
When opposing belligerent ships are
simultaneously present the 24-hour
rule of departure must be observed
between them, order of departure to be
determined by order of arrival, except
where circumstances make extensions
of stay permissible. A belligerent YES
sci must not leave within "a hours
after departure of an adversary's pri.
vate vessel
War Vessel Defined.
The proclamation defines a warship
as a public armed vessel commanded
by government officer with a crew
under regular naval discipline, the yes
sci being qualified by armament and
personnel to take offensive action
against the enemy's public or private
ships. Except as to hospital ships the
same treatment is to be given every
vessel, belligerent or neutral, armed
or not, that does not fall under the
definition when 1t is employed by 9
belligerent power as a transport, fleet
auxiliary or otherwise to aid hostili
ties.
Passage through the canal is to BIZ
accorded only upon sworn assurance
by commanders of observance of regu
lations. Belligerent ships are not Il
revictual nor to take on coal excep
as may be strictly necessary. Prizes
of war are to be governed by the same
rules.