Show I ENGLAND TO SEIZE GRAIN BRAIN BRAINI I BRITISH FLEET T WILL TREAT FOOD DESTINED i FOR GERMANY AS foS C CONTRABAND Step Step Taken by Englishmen Following Announcement That German Government Gov Coy Had Confiscated All II the Grain and Flour Ambassador n-Ambassador al Washington Washington Ambassador Ambassador Page London cabled the state department on Tuesday that th the British fi fleet t had hka been ordered to treat cargoes cargoes of gra grain and flour destined for i 1 Germany or br Austria as conditional contraband subject to seizure and confiscation This st step p the am ambassador ed followed the announcement that the German government had decreed confiscation of all U grain grain and flour to to conserve the nations nation's food supply Since the publication of the the German Ger- Ger I Ger-I man order the ambassador here Count von Bernstorff personally lias hal assured the American government that no foodstuffs imported from the United I States or countries would be subject to seizure and press dispatches dis di- patches have have announced the issuance of a modifying decree making such exemptions exemptions' by bythe the German g govern govern- vern- vern ment Am Ambassador Page Jage said ad the British government had informed him that because the steamship p Wilhelmina now bound from New York to Hamburg Hamburg Ham Ham- burg W with h hl l and nd other ther r food foot had sailed before the issuance of oE l th the Ger German German man decree an exception would be made in her case case The vessel would bo ho seized it was said Baid but she would be released and her cargo argo purchased at invoice price by the British government Warning Warning was given however that other ship shipments ship ments meats J hereafter of pf like character r when destined for G Germany directly or Dr indirectly would be tie seized as asas weir wei as IlS the vessels carrying them without compensation being paid |