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Show EIGHT HUN SHIPS AMERICA'S SHARE OF MERCHANT FLEET PARIS, March 15. Under the agree-men agree-men which the Germans made at Brussels, Brus-sels, the United States will receive eight German ships, which will be ready to go to sea within four days. The vessels are the Zeppelin, of 15,200 tons; the Prinz Friedrich Wilhelm, of 17,000 tons; the Graf Waldersee, of 13,000 tons; the Patricia, of 14,466 tons; the Cap Finis-terre, Finis-terre, of 14,500 tons; the Pretoria, of 13,200 tons; the Cleveland, of 10,900 tons, and tho Kronprinzessin Augusta Victoria. The giant Imperator, of 52,000 tons, also will go to tho United States. At , the present time the Imperator is stuck in the mud, but it is believed she can be floated in a few days. The total ships made available to the allies under the agreement number mor than 7U0, approximating 1.509,0'JO tons. The vessels going to the United States are passenger ships, on account of the American desire to use them for the transport of troops. Those going to France and England immediately are cargo vessels in neutral ports in South and Central America and the Dutch East Indies. They will be permitted to leave with cargoes for Germany Ger-many with German crews, but under allied flags. When ships put out from German ports to be handed over they will be manned by Germans, but on arrival in allied ports, the crews will be replaced by allied crews and the Germans Ger-mans returned. There is available in England for immediate im-mediate movement to Germany approximately approxi-mately 30,000 tons of pork products, 5000 tons of beans, 5000 tons of rice and 15,000 tons of cereah. Tho United States has in Rotterdam aDd on the way there, approximately 75,000 tons of breadstuffs. A summary of tho agreement shows that payment by Germany will be made by freight hire accruing to the Gormans for the use of shipping, and part from credits that Germany may continue to establish and maintain in neutral countries; coun-tries; part from German exports; part from the sale of German-owned foreign securities, and part by tho use of German Ger-man gold. The Germans agreed to place a deposit de-posit of gold in the National Bank of Belgium at Brussels for use as collateral. |