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Show FREDERIK VIII MAY BE HELD UP FOR A WEEK AT HALIFAX WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. The Frederik lir. carrying Count Von Bernstorff and other German officials back to Germany, will be held up in Halifax for examination at least a week and perhaps two. in the opinion of British officials here. The task of examining a ship of her size with nearly 1200 passengers, a large crew and big cargo space in a harbor unprepared for the work, is expected to present a hard problem, but it is declared that no possibility will lie left that the steamer can carry to Germany any kind of contraband. contra-band. British " officials are especially fearful that rubber may have been smuggled aboard the steamer in some disguised f form. They have many specimens here 1 of pieces of rubber covered with coffee ' beans and placed in the center of large bean sacks (or smuggling past the blockade. block-ade. The possibility of diverting all shipping between American and Scandinavian ports to Halifax for examination, instead of to Falmouth, so . as to avoid the German submarine zone, has been earnestly urged by officials of the foreign steamship companies com-panies concerned, and an attempt made to elicit the support of the American government. gov-ernment. All informal help possible has ben offered, but the shipping men have been told to put their main reliance In the influf nee of their own governments. j |