Ogden Daily Standard | 1918-04-06 | Page 28 | Sweden's Ships to be Bunkered

SWEDEN'S SHIPS " TO BE BUNKERED War Trade Board Preparing to License Vessels When Agreements Agree-ments Are Fulfilled. LIBERAL PLAN MADE Terms for Duration of War Adequate Supplies to Be Sent Nation. WASHINGTON. April 6. The war ir.ifle board, it became known oday, has anticipated Sweden's fulfillment, of the terms of a temporary shipping ngTeement and has authorixed licenses for the export to Sweden of 25.000 tons of phosphate rock urgently needed bv Swedish farmers for fertilizing purposes. The first steamer is ex-im ex-im i ted to sail shortly. The board also ha- riven favorable consideration to a Swedish suggestion that Swedish ships should be bunkered bunk-ered and permitted to sail to Cnile for 20.000 tons of salt petre. Th temporary agreement provides thut promised supplies from this side shall ni be released until the charters arc signed for the entire 100,00. tons of shipping which Sweden for its part i- to furnish Part of the charters Still remain to be signed but such satisfactory sat-isfactory procrross has been made in turning out the tonnage that the board decided voluntarily to release the phosphate to nwet the immediate need of Swedish agriculture. The terms of a general agreement for the duration of the war, now under negotiation with Sweden, are regarded re-garded here as decidedly fair and lib-eral lib-eral to Sweden They provide for adequate supplies of cereals, fats and i other foodstuffs, coffee, tea and spices I and cotton, wool, leather and tannine materinls. fertilizers, binder twine for the harvest and other necessities' which Sweden is obliged to import and for the hunkers necessary to move the ships with these supplies. Supplies of 200.000 tons of wheal. : 80.000 ton of wheal flour. 50,000 tons of oats and 100,000 tons of maise from the Argentine ,-ind Australia would be assured to Sweden urfder tue proposed agreement oo