Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-17
Morris, Armour, Hammond, Swift and Sulzberger
 Plants Are Losers.
cTDAHY COMPANY IS
 GRANTED ITS CLAIMS
Secretary Lansing Allows It to Be Vrown That United States Govern. ment Can Take No Action, Unless Denial of Justice Is Shown
 After Appeal Is Heard.

London, Sept. 16.-The British prize court today condemned the greater psrt.of the American products form ing the cargoes of four steamships. The products, valued at many mll- lion dollars, are declared forfeited to the crown.
 The judgment was delivered by Sir Samuel T. Evans, president of the court. It involves the, cargces of the Norwegian steamship Kim, Alfred Noble, Bjornstjorne Bjornson and Frdland All the goods on these vessels consisting principally Of American meat products, are confis- 1 cated, with ths. exception of small Proportion which the court released 1 10 claimants. .s
 The case has been pending for sev- eral months. The steamships we're seized last November, and although efforts were made by the American owners to obtain an early trial the British uthorities set the hearing for June. The hearing closed last month and judgment was reserved until to- day.
 In lengthy judgment, Sir Samuel said it was plain these ships were carrying towards Copenhagen, when c3p ur;d more than thirteen times the amount of goods which under normal circumstances would have been taken to that port. That fact gave practical and overwhelming as surance that the goods were intended to find their way to Germany, al- lnough Of course, it did not prove conclusively that they were destined TOT an enemy of Great Britain.
 one circumstance throwing light on .ae real destination of the goods, Sir samuel said, was that the exporta- llon or lard by one American com Mny alone to Copenhagen in three weeks after the outbreak of the war was twenty times more than in pSrlods Of peace. As to- tins of can led meat, he said, it had not been snowh Fney had baen sent to Dem h H,ark in any great quantity before 'ne war, yet hundreds of thousands w were on the way when the vessels "srs eaptured. These tinss it seemed, sould not have been meant for any persons other than German soldiers. nelerrlng to the consignments of upper. described as gum, the presi- uent of the court said:
 e, Concealment Attempted. '@ [. come to the conclusion that gum hu a true commercial description tS M rubber and that it was used in tAo @ saips manifest in order to avoid Vs No ailllculty which would result in ssns s capture by belligerent. Any ii'a;ceaiment f .;. of this sort will, while l. 'i' m the prize court, weigh heavi- courses. ~ "no "oopt such tho;s ;M;atrals m are expected to conduct withon4 u neutral trade during the war and ,u, sun.e raise papers and with candor, iron DeNlgerents are entitled to expect dno. .' ;, heutrals a frank course, Of con Dani..s samuel allowed one claim of a m 1p.sn manufacture for a quantity shjnnaaD oDer which he said had been factorrvu m good fNth for use in his allowed Another claim was dis Tb., Meat Worth Millions,
 most nnn meat cargoes, shipped for the packinpma pa'. by the great American thsm companies, and yalued by presida,ntS tSlo,ooo,O00 were. found by the soma sauent a to be destined, except. for tion in all na Items, not for ,consump- GsrmanuD Denmark but for delivery. in tual dast,.He He held that their even
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