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war automobiles. According to the 'Han-
delsblad" these cars were in a repair shop
and were wrecked by British bombs last
week. The loss of this large stock and its
elaborate equipment was q serious bIowito
the Germans, who were compelled to take
over a private automobile factory at AK
In Chapelle, where hundreds of Dutch
workmen have obtained employment.
Adyices from Washington state that seye-
raj United States Consulates have been IN
the line of fire since the war began and some
have been damaged, for example, ut Odessa,
Rheims md Warsaw, and in each case the
usual request for the payment OF damages
was made by the State Department, At
Dnnkirk there is however, probably no
ground for protest as Mr.. Morel is a French
mhn conducting United States Consular in
tprests along with his private business, and
the Amer can Government early in the war
advised it's Consuls to use their own discre-
ton about remaining in dangerous lOcaIi-
ties.
Senator Stone, Chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee, has sent the State
Depmtme nt twenty specifications of charges
If favou ring the Allies against Germany. In
the ordinary routine Senator Stone should
be a defender Of the administrator He
SAYS: at is the business Of the belliger-
ents operating on the high seas and
not the duty Of a neutral nation to pre-
vent c0utraband from reaching the enc
my. Those in this country who sympathize
with Germany and Austria Hungary appear
TO assume that some obligation rests upon
this Government IN the performance OF its
neutral duty, to prevent all trade in contra
band and thus eQu8lize the difference due
TO the relative naval strength Of the belligB-
rents. No such obligation exists, and it
would be an unneutral act and an act of par
TALLY on the part of this Government to
adopt such a policy if the executive had
power to TO so. If Germany and Austria
Hungary cannot import contraband from this
country It is not because Of this fact, and
it is not the duty of the United States to
close its markets to the Allies. The markets
Of this country are open upon equal terms to
all the world and to every nation, bellige-
rent or neutral.
The following facts not previously known
have now been disclosed: That Canada re-
Gently asked the United States permission to
ship war equipment across Alaska to the sea
and was refused. That the United. States
protested vigorously to France because the
German passengers on an American ship ply
ing between two ports III Columbia were
forced by a boarding crew from Il ffeDc1
cruiser to sign a promise not TO participate
in the war. That sharp representations were
made to another Of the Allies because q
search was conducted on the high seas
on TN American ship for German and
Austrian passengers. That representations
were made to Japan and Great Britain
against the continued presence Of their
w~uuships off United States ports and that
these protests had been needed.
The foregoing document is the Joint pro-
duet of President Wilson, Mr.. Bryan and
Mr.. Lansing, Counsellor to the Department
of State.
St.Kitts, Jan. 26-Tho steamer 'NIoravol" Of
the Trinidad Shipping and Trading Coy with
q general cargo and siNty-ivo mules, bound
from NewYorE to Grenada, arrived here last
night ON fire in forward hold. The fire was
trst observed at sea on 22ud and eudeavour-
ing to put it out the second engineer lost
his life. TIE steamer has landed her pns-
Sengers, mails and mules and IS still in har-
bour combating the fire.
New York, Jan. 25th.
Flour, Winter Clears per bnrlel 1928
MeaI, kiMdlied per burrel 1915