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Show PESSOA URGES SALE OF SEIZED VESSELS RIO JANEIRO, May 4. Sale of former German ships which wore seized by Brazil during tho war was urged by President PoBoa, in his mea-ago mea-ago to congress Monday. Twenty-eight of these steamers were borrowed by Franco, and the president presi-dent said France was non-committal when asked by Brazil If she desired to purchase tho ships on the same I terms offered by North American firms. He said Franco requested a renewal of the loan agreement between be-tween the two countries and suggested that tho ship- question bo settled by the reparation commission. Brazil replied, tho president said, that tho ownership of the steamers was settled by the Versailles treaty and refused to renew Its loan to France. At tho samo time she asked that country to return tno Bhlps to Brazilian harbors. No 'response has yet beeu received from Parl3. oo |