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Show HOLLAND PROTESTING GERMAN PRIZE LAW Modification of Teuton Rules Imperils Dutch Shipping, It Is Claimed. AMSTERDAM. May 20.- Holland has protested against the modilicatlon of the German prize law of April 24, according to a statement made by Foreign Minister Loudon in the chamber. The minister said that, despite the German offer to make exceptions and provide conditional safeguards In certain cases, the revised rules imperiled Dutch shipping. A dispatch from Stockholm, May quoted the Swedish legation at Berlin . . as reporting an amendment, immediately effective, to the German prize regulations. regula-tions. The amendment provided ihat. neutral vessels, the dispatch said, shon,k be considered to havo been put into op-eration op-eration in the interests of the warfare' of Germany's enemies when tho state the flag of which vessels were entitled to carry had made a tonnage contrail with a country enemy to Germany, or jy when the principal part of the merchniu marine of a neutral state was makinf . voyages for countries at war with Ger-, 1 many. |