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Show 24 FOREIGN BUILT SHIPS ARE ADMITTED Total Tonnage Represented Is 100 820 Many More to Transfer Registry WASHINGTON Sept. 18 Twenty four for gn bu It vessels, with a total tonnage of 100 S'O have been admitted to Amer can registr under the neii shipp ng law and customs collectors are act ng on reg sters for twenty seven add tional ships of 106,360 ag gregatp tonnage Ass stant Secretary Sweet of the de tiartment of commerce sa d tonight that Sift cult had been met in effecting transfer n only one case that of tl e Br tish steamer Robert Dollar it B o Tace ro Delav n this case he 6aid was only temporary and had been caused by a customhouse erro F L Phernfont counselor of the Brazil an embassy inquired today of Sol c tor Johnson at the state depart ment if the Amer can government had on record any precedent s nee the outbreak out-break of the present war for the change, n ree strv of merchant sh ps. The i Brazil an go ernment s nvest gating the status of the Robert dollar Mr Johnson e ted the cases of the Niagara and Buffalo which changed their flags at -j!an Francisco |