Cut Bank pioneer press., 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.-Pr Wilson Sat
urday issued a 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 it's prohi-
bitions 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-
tion 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 a vessel in the service of bel
ligerent power shall serve to deprive
such vessel of like hospitality in the
Panama canal zone for period of
three months, and vice versa.
May Not Land Troops.
Belligerent powers are forbidden by
the proclamation to embark or disem-
bark troops, war munitions or warlike
materials in the zone, except in case
of necessity due to accident Belliger.
ent 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 an6
to make a vessel seaworthy may tht
United States repair facilities an(
docks be used by belligerent ships, and
the work must be done speedily, undel
supervision of canal authorities.
Except by special arrangement there
shall not be at any one time more
than three war vessels of any ont
nation, including those of allies, il
either terminal port or its adjacen
territorial waters, or more than thre'
such vessels in transit through tn
canal, or more than six at one time il
all the territorial waters of the zone
When opposing belligerent ships ar
simultaneously present the 24-hou
rule of departure must be observe
between them, order of departure to b
determined by order of arrival, excer
where circumstances make extension
of stay permissible A belligerent ve'
sci must not leave within "a hour
after departure of an adversary's pr
vate vessel.
War Vessel Defined.
The proclamation defines a warshi
as a public armed vessel commando
by a government officer with ere
under regular naval discipline, the We
sci being qualified by armament ar
personnel to take offensive actic
against the enemy's public or priva
ships. Except as to hospital ships Il
same treatment is to be given evel
vessel, belligerent or neutral, armt
or not, that does not fall under Il
definition when it is employed by
belligerent power as transport, file
auxiliary or otherwise to aid hosti
ties
Passage through the canal is to
accorded only upon sworn assuran
by commanders of observance of reg
lations. Belligerent ships are not
revictual nor to take on coal exec
as may be strictly necessary. Priz
of war are to be governed by the SAL
rules.