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Show TO REFUSE U. S. CONSIGNMENTS i American Shipments for Hol- land Will Be Stopped Brit- ish Take Action. I London, Thursday, Sept. 14, C p. m. (Delayed) The plan of rationing the neutral countries of Norway, Sweden, Swe-den, Denmark and Holland under which no further licenses will be granted for the present to British exporters, ex-porters, has been extended to apply to the United States by the expedients of refusing to allow The Netherlands Overseas Trust to accept further American 'consignments, and by declining de-clining to grant letters of assurance for American shipments destined for theso countries. In consequence American shipments for Holland will be stopped absolutely absolute-ly while the regular transportation companies trading between the United Unit-ed States and Scandinavia will not take cargoes without assurances of their innocent destination by the British Brit-ish authorities. Furthermore, tramp steamers are hardly likely to risk the inevitable landing in the prize court of any cargo they might accept. Neutral diplomats here believed two reasons induced the British government govern-ment to take this action. The first is the simplicity of the plan, which I enables the government to control supplies at the source. The second Is the gro ing bill with which Great Britain is being pressed by neutral governments for demurrage and other expenses incurred by taking suspected suspect-ed ships into Kirkwall and other ports for examination. Another blockade measure is the recent arrangement under which bureaus bu-reaus were set up in England and France for granting licenses for exchange ex-change of goods which figure on the Mist of prohibited Imports. The Amer-, Amer-, ican authorities contend that under I Great Britain-American commercial treaty of 1S15 such prohibitions must I he enforced equally against all coun-j coun-j tries. Consequently any privileges i granted to Franco and not extended to the United States are held to be in violations of that treaty. oo |