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Show EXPORTS EMBARGO .GOUNGILCREATED GOVERNMENT WILL SEE THAT NO MORE SUPPLIES ARE SENT TO THE GERMANS. President Wilson Issues Executive Order Or-der Under Which Many Steps for Successful Prosecution of War May be Taken at Once. Washington. Control of American exports, authorized in a clause of the espionage hill, was assumed on June 25 by President Wilson with the appointment ap-pointment of an exports council, comprising com-prising the secretaries of state, agriculture agri-culture and commerce, and the food administrator. An executive order creating the council directs the depart- tails of commerce to administer all details de-tails of operation. "A victorious conclusion of the war j can come," said the president in a statement outlining the country's export ex-port policy, "only by systematic direction direc-tion of American trade." "The free play of trade will not be arbitrarily interfered with," he said. "It will only be intelligently and systematically sys-tematically directed in the light of full information with regard to the needs and market conditions throughout the world and the necessities of our people at home and our armies and the armies of our associates abroad." Members of tne exports council will organize and recommend to the president presi-dent a series of proclamations which will put the law into active operation. The first proclamation will require the licensing of all coal and fuel shipments, ship-ments, including bunkers, and its purpose pur-pose is to give the government first a firm grasp on shipping. The second -will provide a eystern -of licensing for every class of exports to the European neutral countries and is designed to prevent supplies from reaching uermany. Proclamations to follow will name specific commodities which may not be snipped anywhere without licenses. The first commodities to be designated will be cereals and other foodstuffs. By degrees the list will be extended until virtually every .export 'Commodity Is brought under the operation of the act. The proclamations covering coal and exports to European neutrals probably will be issued this week. Under an ar-. ar-. rangement to be made with the British government providing for an international interna-tional shipping control, the United States and Great Britain will have the trade of the world in their hands to direct in the manner best calculated to assist in winning the war. The neutral export proclamation will be hurried to prevent removal from the United States of large supplies of foodstuffs bought by the neutrals and now stored in this country awaiting shipment. The government is determined deter-mined to hold neutrals to necessities. |