The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-10-15
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Bridgeport Concerns to Ben eft Under Ruling That Private Transactions Do Not Violate Neutrality.

With the announcement by Robert Lansing, assistant secretary of state, at Washington, yesterday, that com mercial transactions between the bel 1igerent governments of Europe and private citizens of the United States in no way effect the neutrality of this country. even though arms and ann
 nunition are involved. has brought to light many cheerful prospects in the labor outlook in this city.
 While many of the industries in this city are still reticent in announcing that they are engaged in the work of manufacturing product which will be used abroad-if not captured as con traband on the high seas-dt is known that much of this manufacture is now in progress in Bridgeport with the prospect that even larger orders will be received dn the near future.
 : Not only will the Union Metallic 6sartrfdge company and the American & British company benefit in their sales of ammunition and ordnance, but almost every factory manufactur- ing staple goods is assured of dn- creased business as the government agents from France, England, Ger many and other stricken countries ar rive here to place orders necessltaIeo by the prolonged struggle
 AS an instance of the impetus to business 1t was learned today that the Spring Perch company had re eeived large orders for their producS. While it Is officially denied at the com pany,s offices that the goods were to be shipped directly into the war zone OF that the factory would be worked at night. it was admitted that facto- ries throughout the country nanufac- turing automobile trucks had rece1Ved orders from abroad to be rushed through Automobile trucks are in such great demand for war purposes that it is likely that every factory in the country will secure a large snare of the busiress.
 Another boost to the automobile in- dustry is the fact that during the summer many who have heretofore gone abroad annually will remain in this country, with the probability that they will purchase cars to tour the United States. So strong is this be- lief in the minds of automobile man. ufacturers that they are making prep arations for a. larger output during 1915.
 The statement of Assistant Secre- tary Lansing, prompted by a wide spread belief that it was contrary to neutrality laws to manufacture for for eign governments, declares in part:
 .tIt should be understood that gen. orally speaking citizen of the United States can sell to a belligerent gov OfnmSnJ, or 1CS agent any dIllCI0 OI commerce which he p1eases. He is not prohibited from doing this by any rule of international law, by any treaty publication or by any statute of the United States. It makes no difference whether the articles sold are exclusive Iy for war purposes, such as firearms. explosives, etc., or are foodstuffs, clothing, horses, etc, for the use Of the army or navy of the belligerent. Fsurther1nore, neutral government is not compelled by international law, by treaty or by statute to prevent those sales to be1ligerent. Such sales, therefore. by American citizens do not in the least affect the neutrality Of the United States.
 ..It Is true that such articles as those mentioned are considered con. ltrabaInd and are outside the territorial jurisdiction of a neutral nation, sub ject to seizure by an enemy of the purchasing government, but it is the enemy's duty to prevent the articles reaching their destination, not the du- ty of the nation whose citizens has sold them. If the enemy of the pur- chasing nation happens for the time to be unable to do this. that is for him one of the nisfortgnes of war; the inability, however, imposes on the neutral government no obligation to prevent the sale''