Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-23
DRASTIC BAN ON SUPPLIES
INTENDED FOR GERMANY
President and Advisers Decide That
No More Sustenance Must Reach
Enemy Armies.
EXPORTS COUNCIL AT WORK
Secretary Redfield Makes Public List
Of All Commodities Requiring
License for Foreign Shipments.
Some Neutrals VIII Be Hard Hit.

WASHINGTON. July 22.-The Presi-
dent and his advisers OF the Export
Council have finally decided. that. no
more sustenance must get to Germany
to keep German armies in the field.
Within Il very snort time the export
control will develop into strict en-
barge on food products and military
material for neutrals adjacent to Ger
many The Exports Council has quiee-
ly informed shippers and exporters that
they must prepare for this.
The President has become convinced
| that This will not be a measure aimed
at the German people. 1t has been
proven to him that the large amount
of fats which seeped INFO Germany
through Holland and Scandinavia last
year, a fat ration for 100000 went
to the troops in the field first The
civil population got little of it,
So far. practically all applications
for licenses have been granted. This
policy was adhered to so that the an
plication Of the exports control claw
might work as little hardship as pos
sible on the countrys growing EXPORT
business.
Secretary Redfield to-day made pub
lie the official list OF all commodities
requiring license for export. These
are the secondary products included
under the general heads in the Presi
dents proclamation. Their scope in
dicates the extent to which the Ex-
ports Council is preparing to go in
preventing sustenance, particularly
rats. from reaching Germany.
For instance. under the heading.
food grains. flour and meal there
FROM" the Exports Council has in :
cluded ell cakes. oil-cake meal. malt
and peanuts.
COMMODITIES USED
TO FiTTEH CATTLE
ten cattle and enrich their milk
throughout the Communicating neu-
trail nations. The resultant animal fats
formed the one element in the Germa n
military diet which Germany could not
herself produce.
The enforcement OF the embargo on
these foods and feeds will effect lit
tie hardship in the United States. 1t
VIII result in depriving certain Indus
tries OF the abnormal profits of this
u ohiS WhlSn ultimately reached the
enemy. The products Will now be avail
able Tor domestic use. They are count
ed on in the food administraticn's
plans for conserving the organizing of
our own food supply and controlling
prices here.
The Exports Council will permit only
Just enough of these commodities to
reach the neutrals as will sustain them
on the same basis as that upon which
he allies have to live.
In giving out the list, Secretary
Redield said:
This list supersedes an unauthor-
lied and incorrect statement hitherto
published.
additions may be made to this list
If 1t is determined that other articles
are properly included in the general
headings given in the Presidents
proclamation. Oficial notice will be
given OF such changes when :hey occur.
Export license is required at pres
ent for any article on the following
list:
Coal. coke fuel oils, iuhr eating oil.
benzol head lantern oil. :oluol. naph-
tina. bcnzine. red oil. ker, sene and
gasoline. inclOhinG bunkers.
Food grains-fiour and meal there
from. corn -four. barley, rice -four. rico.
ostmeal ard rolled oats, fodder and
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