Show llANO Ir T IJ Lc r i i M RICA ICA I Tons Ton's of V Vessels ess ls toBe loJe e Added to U. U S S. S I Fleet of Transports lu jar for or Food and Troops Ey Stanley M. M Reynolds national News New Service Staff Start Cor respondent f ASHINGTON March 14 f W y Si Six Sis hundred thousand I is j of Dutch shipping snipping in allied ar to l he taken on over r by the thero I te ted ro d States and Great Britain lif ed fd the movement of or American s to France IW 1 compensation is iz to be he to I DiMi rs and generous pro- pro J I ciare are to be made to insure food I t Holland This was emphasized In InI I circles es i r H I Io o only l after painstaking consid- consid ton n. n the action emphasizes as ns as no not t months P President Wilsons Wilson's I to the war r 2 le t e a sd tonnage tons ton are nrc in American ports will T easily mily po possible the execution of i Jle sew T ord orders rs that have ha gone sone forthe fortha forth a i tie the e White rhile HoUse to speed up tho the theto to France f of uC the action Which is cx- cx x- x IJ 19 to be taken within four da days s. s I 10 u up finally to the the Ufe uses of oC J States s 's and the allies t for r the wed of the war all neutral shipping IU JW th proposition before Holland Hofland Is to 1 e h air ber r ships in the thc service of the e before Match March 18 or orIth e eth e th requisitioned With Ith a Ger- Ger LII nn un pointed at her head had It J I Is not ed I that she hc will enter into a vol vol- arrangement OTEST u. u BELIEVED FILED I ett minister Au Augustus So tI ani arrived cd In America II nt Wilson this afternoon at White 1 House He ia Is understood to a f formal Protest prote t against the I it Won advanced ad nere is howe cr ever no sU suggestion that d will ic be driven by br the act into Wr lb h on the J sido of oC G Germany I T d declining the terms don n It u. u is 13 recognized all I on sides the S i li h an P lo to requisition the I I t legal one In inter inter- I Onal law Just as the belligerents i Peat 1 at the Outbreak of ot the in war lk did rate ae not hesitate to seize the tile I i count of ot citizens of neu- neu I touring JJ the continent I Unil-d Unil State 1 ht and the hIie have I to the thc c ships of or In iii their ports I M is every Cn dj disposition Holland Hollanti a with tim the ty H greatest zen zen- cn- cn r thu need Is f food tood od re she he ie Is riot Hot far Car from I famine amIne ne fJ n ot f the ex- ex that 1 She he th will Tf r fu to a agree reo s shi will 11 get ct a all I Ji the tho food It If sue 7 I tIJI nI be by Is blocked d in n this t bear r tue German And Germany German I 14 the attitude blame of or ot of f the star ln her American t as I be Ie expressed as on 00 th thc basis brulI or of Information fi officials o OF TRANSACTION 1 cUon and ter terms ot f the Fe these I tn of Dutch shipping 1 an aro in allied c approximately as fol- fol 11 United orts tes ports orts In I POrtS and S Ii ln In other alI al- al l III the Tho They ha have havo 0 been tied lied ports ot of tiie because of the un- un s to States arid and giVe e j tr r them car cargoes unless not go l' l to only nl that goods I j HOIland's Germany a ut that thai I a be rn made tonnage sorely need need- I aeed available to the thc need need-I alfor al al- I e tons In t tot ports I I 1 Seventy enty kh ships hips thirty five ar of ot n ow J 4 bulls In dr dry dock lock having ha SCraped I ble for tor d and which will be i other Use almost immediately are engaged i In orae ie and South AmerIn Amer- Amer I In l Lies OVer o the E tG agree that tons the theto ir Holland ru may to toI I o without r fear Car of or ofas further j ed to ships as may be carry tr to Holland the food i maintain R for Bel- Bel an 1 hollands holland's colonial bring Int to h her r ports rtH food from seito I Li Moreover Moreo that the allies cn engage ago gets the thc food conditions of or course on page j I 70 HOllAND SHIPS TO BE SEIZED BY U. U S. S Continued from page page- 2 2 that will prevent an any iny traffic in foodstuffs foodstuffs food tood- stuffs between Holland and German Germany GENEROUS COMPENSATION Furthermore not only will vIlI generous compensation be made for fOI the Use of tho the taken but ships over o guarantees will be bo given gl that any lost will ho 10 j replaced after utter the war and all nil repairs made to keep them in excellent trim I i In or order that Holland after th the war war ma may resume her normal trade without 4 j being being- handicapped 1 b by lack of or shipping ship ship- ping These engagements virtually and with one exception were those which the the- United States and the allies ames undertook undertook under under- took to assume in the long Ions an and finally negotiations that preceded the decision to requisition The exception Is that the tho allies under voluntary ar arrangement arrangement ar- ar would have hav seen sen to it that none of or tho ships chartered would he used In Jn the tho war zone on for transporting troops and supplies to the allies Thc They would have havo been used simply to re relieve relieve rt re- lieve C allies' allies shipping now eng eng-ag engaged d In overseas trade but hut sorely needed Corthe for fop forthe the business of war |