The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-03-15
German Minister Will Today
Be Handed His Passports
informed Ships Seized.
GERMANY WAGES WAR
ON RELIEF COMMISSION
Two Neutral hips Sunk With.
in Week Without Warning
Bound 10 belgium With
Grain for Her Hungry People
tRy T.. X. sARrN ELL. International
News service, STAFF E'Drrts~ pondent)

ilA is- = sEA " IftsN'fiuts,bSh
News service st.gf Correspondent
Washington March l4.~-Hope Tor
more or less genera action among the
neutrals Of the void 10 break off re-
iations with Germany as a protest
asaihs: EuDna. mo Futhlessness was
revived u NAshin Ion tonight. Re-
ports 80 t,.o state department and the
navy depar'ment that China had
froken WIKI thc Ge ruan government,
led 10 thu hope Chat President W.T.
sons desire t"r : general break by
he neutral, expressed in his original
address 20 conSr IS on the German
break, m.sht yet bring forth fruit.
Administrator officials believe. that a
concerted cutting of OF relations by
several Of DE important neutral ma
tons would soon ring the German
submarine campaign % an end and
possibly avert Ide war which. day BY
GOV. approaches more closely 70 The
i'rited S'ate~
Nav Neap Further Neutral Notion.
TIL t'hiueSa breAk o;Ncials believe.
NAV men the wav for further neutral
artio.,. srd tonight i, was sueg sst"a
tha4 certain South An"rtcaa Hafio~ =
s-~ - CONSIDERING GLOWING the lea!
cf the T,nited States in CON batting tls
,ub1uarinr warfare C-hina's detern:n-4
~1io' t ~ ~ NN - ,,,,..a' f..,,, ,iir.
"a e p,tS.,,,,, ~ prt;ne Who
reported thai t1n German ninister
would hc banded his passports re-
~,crr0N. Tte rank!as American navel
ffcer in chinese v;'t~r7 reported thai
China had seized a. informed Gers
sh,Dping Al Srargnai. and Haa
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n,ostor NAV, have hanp duo "a <sne
CARRIED nrotectfve ~ inch sun ana
wireless t,yn}os,on killed INSTANTLY
fourth engineer storckeener ana three
f~cr,o,, ri FIVE British sole Ameri
ran John ~ VINCENT OAK Blufr,.
Mass is safe. but had narrow eseanes
as his galley was WRECKED hv tho ey L
plosfon. Fortv-tw. survivors ont az 4.
complement of forty seven Mails be-
ing saved
Consul General Skinner. nj London.
reported the savin,. of the enth /. 49,
OF the British steamer East i-oint.
h)uud from london 10 philadeIphfa
The :ass Point was torpedoed wtthcly
warning. The Americans we're among
the rescued crew. They were John