Millard County Chronicle | 1915-01-28 | Page 5 | Food Exports Exempt.

FOOD EXPORTS EXEMPT. Shipments From United States to Germany Permitted by Germans. Washington. Count von Bernstorft, the German ambassador, notified the atate department on Tuesday that his government had given official assurance assur-ance that no foodstuffs shipped from the United States to Germany would be seized for military or any other governmental use. The order of the federal council of Germany for the seizure of all stocks of corn, wheat and flour in Germany by February 1 had been construed by some officials here as likely to deprive de-prive the owners of the cargo of the American steamship Wilhelmina of the right they claim to land their food supplies in Germany. The basis of their claim was the declaration that the grain was not intended for the German army or the German government, gov-ernment, but for noncombatant individuals, indi-viduals, and therefore not subject to seizure according to the terms of The Hague convention.