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Show AMERICAN TRADE IS GIVEN ANOTHER BLOW Shipments From This Country Coun-try to Holland Stopped; Others Restricted, LOXDON, Sept. 14, Thursday, G p. m. (Delayed.) The plan ol rationing the neutral countries of Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland, under which no further licenses will be granted for the present to British exporters, has been extended to apply to the United States by the expedients of refusing to allow the Netherlands oversea trust to accept further American consignments, and by declining to grant letters of assurance for American shipments destined for these countries. In consequence American shipments for Holland will be stopped absolutely, while the regular transportation companies com-panies trading between the United States and Scandinavia wilk not take cargoes without assurances of their innocent in-nocent destination by the British authorities. au-thorities. Furthermore, tramp steamers are hardly likely to risk the inevitable landing in thb prize court of any cargo they might accept. Neutral diplomats here believe two reasons induced the British government to take this action. The first is the simplicity of thc plan which enables the government to control supplies at tho source. The second is the growing bill with which Great Britain is bping pressed by neutral government for demur de-mur rage and other expenses ineurred by taking suspected ships into Kirkwall and other ports for examination. Another blockade measure is the recent re-cent arrangement under which bureaus were set up in England and France for granting licenses for exchange of goods which figure on the list of prohibited imports. The Amcriean authorities; eon-tend eon-tend that under the British-American eommercial treaty of 1 S In such prohibitions prohibi-tions must bo eni'orr-ed en u ally a gainst all countries. Consequently, any privileges privi-leges granted to Franco am! not extended extend-ed to the United States are held to be in violation of that treaty. |