Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1916-07-26

milk to the children in Central Eu-
'Ope possible. To what avail is
by DR., Won Mach as fol-
owsa
"The Several Attempts Made by
rHE CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR
FOOD SHIPMENTS
to Ship
CONDENSED OR DRY MILK IN
LARGE QUANTITIES TO THE
CENTRAL EMPIRES.
(The two large and several
smaller shipments made by
first-class letter mail, register
ed, have all reached their des-
tinations, with the possible ex-
ception of the very last ship
mcnts, Of which we have not
yet heard)
1. TO have the ostmaster-General
re-establish the parcel post SER
vice.
Unsuccessful.
Q. TO have the Postmaster General
avail himself Of the definite sti-
pulation containing in article
Mr.. Of the Postal Union Con-
vention, to have arbitration by
neutral post Offices of our Postal
differences with Great Britain.
He acknowledged to have the
right to do this, but said he
would have to ask Mr.. Lam
sings permission.
Mr.. Lansing refused.
3. To have the President offer a
transport to carry our milk.
"a a q
Not within the power of the
Executive, but of Congress,
Contrast with No. 81
A. To have the President arrange
for the safe transit of a large
ship of the Hamburg-America
Line, offered to us, to carry
American milk to the babies of
all belligerents.
Refused.
S. To have the Executive Branch
Of our Government find any
safe way to ship milk. We did
not care how the milk was sent.
One effort made Dec. 28, 1915;
none thereafter.
g. TO ship milk on the Holland
American Line assigning it to
the American Legation at The
Hague for trans-shipment to the
Central Powers, just as money
has been assigned to tho Ameri-
can Ambassador in Turkey who
attended to its distribution to
the people for whom it was
meant.
Refused. because ''impractic-
able for these officers to assume
the additional heavy dutics."J
Z. To pay for additional clerk hire
to attend to the additional and
heavy duties" Of reshipping the
barrels Of Kindolac milk to the
Central Powers.
Refused.
). TO have the Navy Department
carry our milk on a collier just
as it took Easter bread for the
Jews in Alexandria.
Refused.
D. TO have the Congress express
the wish that our State Depart
ment arrange for the unham-
pered shipment OF milk.
Frustrated by MIR. Lansing's re-
quest that no action be taken by
was solely within the power of
the Executive. (Cf. No. 3.)
}. TO have our Government de-
clare unequivocally, as it has
done in substance, that we have
the right to ship the milk to be-
distributed under Red Cross
supervision to those babies and
nursing mothers, who need 1t;
and to have it further publicly
state that such a ship could not
be seized because it could not
be done except by declaring to
the whole world that babies
we're being deprived of their
milk.
If our Government will do this, !
big Insurance Companies in
New York consider the ship a
g good risk and If the Govern
ment will prove it means what |
it says hv authorizing the Bu-
reau of War Risk Insurance to
write half of the insurance, one
big company has offered to |
write the other half.
The Bureau of War Risk In
surancc is by law attached To-
the Treasury Department. The |
particular Qucsting of issuing |
insurance to our proposed ship !
was taken from the Treasury |
Department and given TO the /
State Department were IL was
decided in the negative.
The whole subject was re-
opened again by conferences
with the State Department on
July 18th and 18th. These con-
ferences were attended by the /
Acting Secretary Of State, the {
Third Assistant Secretary, the B.
Chief of the Bureau of Near {
Eastern Affairs, the Executive
Chairman Of the Citizens Com
mittee. and six Congressman.
As a roeulf fha State Dpparf-