Folks, Facts and Fancies

1916

British Official Gazette announces removal from blacklist of American firm names of Electro Bleaching Gas Co. of New York and Niagara Falls, Richard Neuhaus of Electro Bleaching Gas Co. and Gravenhorst & Co. of 96 Wall street, New York.

Senator Martine made an attack in the Senate on the Pennsylvania road Friday morning for printing extracts of campaign speeches of Mr. Hughes on menu cards of dining cars, and claimed this to be proof of close alliance of railroads and Republican party.

King George on Friday signed proclamation requiring British subjects to make returns in regard to property owned by them in countries at war with Great Britain; also of claims made by them against subjects of governments of hostile countries.

Lord Robert Cecil, British minister of war trade, says: "It is not likely that Great Britain will change her blacklist policy at the request of the United States. The ideas expressed by some newspapers that Great Britain is adopting a deliberate policy with which to injure American trade are purest moonshine, since outside of our own dominions our trade with United States is the most important. Any impression that the blacklist is merely an entering wedge for a trade warfare after the war may be dismissed at once. The blacklist is purely a war measure, and the government is taking every precaution to guarantee its enforcement so as to cause as little hardship as possible to innocent traders."

—The Fryeburg Post, Fryeburg, Maine, Sept. 12, 1916, p. 8.