New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-07-09
Licensing Of Shipments
Ordered Under Espio-
mage Law
No Supplies to
Reach the Enemy
Complete Embargo on
Food for Sixty Days
May Be Decreed

Washington, July s.-Government
control of American exports, authorized
IN provision of the espionage act, was
ordered put into operation July 10 by
President Wilson tonight in procla-
nation putting under license shipments
to all countries of the most important
export commodities.
In a statement accompanying the
proclamation the President declared
the governments policy will be, first, to
give consideration to American needs;
next, TO meet as far as possible the re-
quirements Of the Allies. and lastly, to
supply the neutral countries wherever
practicable. 1t is made clear that every
effort will be made TO see that no sup
plies reach the Central powers.
The commodities named in the list
put under control are coal. coke. fuel,
oils, kerosene and gasolene, including
bunkers, food grains, -four and meal,
fodder and feeds, meats and fats, pig
iron, steel bilets, ship plates and
structural shapes, scrap iron and scrap
steel, ferro manganese, fertilizers.
arms, ammunition and explosives.
Food Embargo May BE Complete
The inclusion of foodstufs in the
/ proclamation lends color to statements
that the Administration is considering
the advisability Of complete embargo
for sixty days on all food shipments, to
give the country time to ascertain the
amount of its supplies and to give the
Allies and neutral countries an oppor-
tunity TO present full programme Of
their requirements. The President said
the government was trying first 20
ameliorate present food conditions and
conditions that are expected to arise
between now and the next harvest.
Many officials, alarmed at the wheas
shortage and the heavy drain the Al
lies and neutrals are making on every
kind Of American food supplies, are
urging an immediate embargo on food
shipments.
The Presidents proclamation, after
quoting the law empowering the gov
ernment TO take control of exports,
says:
| hereby proclaim 10 all whom IL
may concern that, except at such
time or times and under such regu-
J lstions and orders and subject 20
such limitations and exceptions as
the President shall prescribe, until
otherwise ordered 1y the President
or jy Congress, the following arti-
/ cles, namely: Coal, coke, fuel, oils,
! kerosene and gasolene, including
! bunkers; food grains, -four and meal
! therefrom, fodder and feeds, meats
and fats, iron pig, steel billets, ship
/ plates and structural shapes, scrap
] iron and scrap steel, shall not, on
+ and after the fifteenth day of July,
| 1917, be carried out Of or exported
( from the United States or its terri
] torial possessions, to Abysslnia, At
! ghanistsn, Albania, Argentina, Aus
ria-Hungary, Belgium, her colonies.
possessions or protectorates; Bolivia,
/ Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chile, CO.
/ lombia, Costa Rica, Denmark, her
! colonies, possessions or protecto-
I
Egypt, France, her colonies, posses
/ sions or protectorates; Germany, her
colonies, possessions or protecto-
rates; Great Britain, her colonies,
! possessions or protectorates; Greece,
! Guatemala, Hayti, Honduras, Italy,
| her colonies, possessions or protec-
to-ates; Japan, Liberia, Leichten-
stein, Luxemburg, Mexico, Monaco,
| Montenegro, Morocco, Nepal, Near
aqua, The Netherlands, her colonies,
possessions or protectorates; Nor
way, Oman, Panama, Paraguay, Per-
/ sia, Peru, Portugal, her colonies. pos
sessions or protectora.es; Rumanis.
Russia, Salvador, San Msrino, Ser
/ bia, Siam, Spain, her colonies, pos
! sessions or protectorates; Sweden,
Switzerland, Uruguay, Venezuela or
I Turkey.
Licenses To BE Obtained
The orders and regulations from
time 10 time prescribed will be ad-
! ministered by and under the au-
thority of the Secretary of Com
merce, from whom licenses in con-
formity with the said orders and
regulation will issue.
In controlling by license the ex-
I port Of certain indispensable COM
modities from the United States the
government has first and chiefly in
view the amelioration OF the food
/ conditions which have arisen or are
! likely to arise in our own country
/ before new crops are harvested. Not
only is the conservation OF our prime
/ food and fodder supplies a matter
which vitally concerns our own peo-
! pie, but the retention OF an adequate
supply OF raw materials is essential
TO our programme OF military and
naval construction and the continu-
ance OF our necessary domestic
activities. We shall therefore sith.-
larly safeguard ali our fundamental
supplies.
il is obviously the duty of the
United States in lIberatlng any sur
own domestic needs TO consider first
the necessities of all the nations en-
gagged in war against the Central En-
| pires.
As to neutral nations, however, NE
also recognize our duty. The gov
ernment does not wish to hamper
them. On the contrary, IL wishes
and intends, by all fair and equitable
means, 10 cooperate with them in
their difficult task of adding from
our available SURPRISES 20 their own
domestic supplE and OF meeting their
| pressing necessities or deficits. In
conserving the deficits of food sup
! plies the government means only TO