The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-02
America Not to Permit Ex-
ports to Neutrals Until
Wants Are Known.
SUPPLIES AMPLE FOR
TWO MONTHS, BELIEF
Canada Expected to Follow
United States in Meeting
Price for Wheat.
BY Associated Press.

Washington, Sept. 1.-Indications
that the United states intends to ra-
ton the northern European neutral
countries in the strictest fashion were
exports administrative board had dis
approved of an arrangement suggested
by the Dutch minister here and the
Belgian relief commission for division
between Holland and Belgium of the
nearly 100 Dutch grain cargoes held
in American ports.
The first news that permission for
the ships to sail had been denied came
today in a dispatch from Rotterdam.
The general understanding had been
that the arrangement would he ap-
proved and that some of the vessels
would sail Immediately.
Must Wait Two Months.
The exports board. It was learned
will let no food cargoes 20 to Euro
pean neutrals for at least two months.
or until the American government has
ascertaincd it's own food requirements
FOR The year and tho size Of the crops
that are to be harvested. All Of the
feutrals. II is held. can feed them.
selves without difficulty until this In
formation Is obtainablc. The United
States wishes to know also the size of
crops TO be harvested in the neutral
countries this fall.
II was made clear that the United
States has no intention of letting ncu-
trails go hungry, but emphasis was
placed on the fact that the govern
ment feels its first obligation is to the
American people and to the allies.
A counter proposal that has been
made to the Dutch. which the other
neutrals are invited to accept. is that
all neutral vessels now in American
ports loaded with foodstuffs discharge
their cargoes and proceed to Australia
and Java for wheat and sugar. These
cargoes would be brought back to the
United States and divided between the
United States and the neutrals.
American government officials feel
that in asking the United States to
supply them with foodstuffs. the neu-
trails should be willing to increase the
general food supply. This they would
do in transporting food cargoes from
Australia and Java, where large sup
plies cannot be moved because of the
general lack of shipping. The neutral
ships would have returned within two
months and by that time the United
also to say how much it can spave
from it's own food store
Cattle Feed Needed Here.
Most of the Dutch ships in American
ports are loaded with corn. which has
spoiled and is fit now only for cattle
feed. This was taken into consider
alton by the exports board, which held
that the need for cattle feed Is much
greater now in the United States than
in Holland.
1t is not known how the neutrals will
look on the suggestion that all their
ships. numbering about $50, discharge
food cargocs. but it is known that the
Dutch minister does not view it with
favor.
Announcement today in Ottawa that
n representative of the food admins
trati0n had concluded an agreement
whereby the Canadian and American
governments will work in closest CO.
operation In the administration of food
control drcw the statement here that
with Canadian assistance supervision
of food distribution and control OF
prices in the United States will be
made much easier. Canada now Is
nI Hn Sixu iHnnti-
cal with the American scale.
Teicgrams reaching the food admin.
istration from various interests
through the country generally approve
the wheat prices fixed. Protests ar
rived from both Chicago and st. Louis
today, however. where each city con-
tends that the east was favored In tht
schedule OF the diffcrcntials an.
nonnccd by the wheat corporation.