regardless of the fact that the goods themselves may have already been licensed. Licenses will be granted in the future for shipments to European countries only on condition that the goods are to be shipped by some vessel other than a sailing vessel. The Board will revoke licenses covering goods to be shipped through the war zone if any shippers attempt to ship them by sailing vessel.-Announcement made September 29, 1917.

Regulations for bunker coal and ship's supplies licenses, Feb. 1, 1918.1 [Journal of War Trade Board, 5:11.]

WAR TRADE Board,
BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION,
Washington, D. C.

GENERAL RULES NO. 1 GOVERNING GRANTING LICENSES FOR BUNKER FUEL, PORT, SEA, AND SHIP'S STORES AND SUPPLIES.

No vessel shall be allowed to clear from any port of the United States, or any United States possession, without having secured a license or licenses from the War Trade Board, through its Bureau of Transportation, covering all the bunker fuel aboard the vessel at the time of sailing (including coal, coke, oil, kerosene, and gasoline) and port, sea, and ship's stores and supplies. Stores and supplies are for convenience hereafter included with bunker fuel under the general designation of "bunkers." Before the loading of any "bunkers" on any vessel at any port of the United States or its possessions shall be permitted, the license for "bunkers" must be obtained. All applications for licenses for "bunkers" must be made upon Application Form B-1, or such other form as may hereafter be adopted by this Board. Applications for such licenses shall be approved only in accordance with the following and such other rules as may from time to time be adopted:

I. No application for "bunkers" by a sailing vessel for a voyage into the submarine war zone shall be approved. Sailing vessels equipped with auxiliary motive power shall in the application of these rules be classified as sailing vessels. A motor ship having no sailing power whatsoever shall be deemed to be in the same class as a steamship.

II. No application for "bunkers" by any vessel which has disobeyed any order of the United States Navy or of the United States Shipping Board, hereinafter called "Shipping Board," shall be approved.

III. No application for "bunkers" by any vessel of American registry not requisitioned by the "Shipping Board" shall be approved, except for a voyage and in a trade approved by the War Trade Board, and, if under charter, unless the charterer and the terms and conditions of the charter are approved by the War Trade Board.

1 The Exports Administrative Board issued a statement of policy on Bunkers to Neutrals, Oct. 5, 1917. (W. T. B., Rules and Reg., No. 1, p. 30.)

IV. No application for "bunkers" by any neutral vessel shall be approved unless the person or persons managing, owning, chartering, or controlling such vessel shall have reported to and filed in duplicate, with the War Trade Board, the name of all the vessels and the masters, and any changes that may from time to time have occurred respecting said vessels and masters, managed, owned, chartered, or controlled by him or them.

V. No application for "bunkers" by any neutral ship shall be approved unless the person or persons owning, managing, chartering, or controlling such vessel shall enter into an agreement in a form to be approved by the War Trade Board, agreeing to comply with and be bound by each and all of the following regulations. Failure to comply with any of these regulations in the case of any one vessel may involve the refusal of "bunkers" to all of the vessels of the particular person firm, or corporation managing, owning, chartering, or controlling the vessel in question:

(a) No vessel shall be chartered to a subject (including a person, firm, or corporation) of Germany or its possessions, or of any power allied with Germany, or to any person, firm, or corporation who or which shall not be acceptable to the War Trade Board.

(b) No vessel shall trade with, or be bound to, any port in Germany or its possessions, or to any country allied with Germany, nor shall a vessel aid any vessel employed by or for Germany or any country allied with Germany.

(c) No vessel shall, without the consent of the State Department, carry any subject of Germany or its possessions, or of any country allied with Germany.

(d) No vessel shall carry any cargo which comes from or through or is destined to Germany or its possessions, or to any country allied with Germany.

(e) Every vessel which proceeds from or to the United States, to or from Norway, Sweden, Denmark (including Iceland and the Faroe Islands), Holland, Spain, or to or from any neutral port in the Medi

1 The War Trade Board announces that the rules governing the issuance of licenses for bunker fuel and ship's stores have been amended so that American vessels not requisitioned by the Shipping Board are brought within the regulations prescribed for neutral vessels in Paragraphs IV and V of the "General Rules No. 1," which were published on Jan. 19 to go into effect Feb. 1, 1918. Paragraphs IV and V as amended read as follows: IV. No application for "bunkers" by any neutral vessel or by any vessel of American registry not requisitioned by the U. S. Shipping Board shall be approved unless the person or persons managing, owning, chartering, or controlling such vessel shall have reported to and filed, in duplicate, with the War Trade Board the names of all the vessels and masters, and any changes that may from time to time have occurred respecting said vessels and masters, managed, owned, chartered, or controlled by him or them.

V. No application for "bunkers" by any neutral ship or by any vessel of American registry not requisitioned by the U. S. Shipping Board shall be approved unless the person or persons owning, managing, chartering, or controlling such vessel shall enter into an agreement in a form to be approved by the War Trade Board, agreeing to comply with and be bound by each and all of the following regulations. Failure to comply with any of these regulations in the case of any one vessel may involve the refusal of “bunkers" to all of the vessels of the particular person, firm, or corporation managing, owning, chartering, or controlling the vessel in question. (Feb. 5, 1918, Journ. W. T B. 6:11.)

terranean Sea, shall call for examination as may be directed by the War Trade Board.

(f) No vessel shall carry from a port outside the United States to any European port cargo which has been previously approved by the War Trade Board or the Interallied Chartering Executive.

(g) No vessel shall carry any cargo from Norway, Sweden, Denmark (including Iceland and the Faroe Islands), Holland, Spain, or Switzerland to any ports unless such cargo is accompanied by a certificate of nonenemy origin.

(h) No vessel shall carry any goods which are consigned to "order" (goods may, however, be consigned to the order of a person, firm, or corporation when such person, firm, or corporation is the actual consignee). This provision shall not apply to goods shipped from a port of the United States or its possessions to countries other than Norway, Sweden, Denmark (including Iceland and the Faroe Islands), Holland, Spain, and Switzerland.

(i) No vessel shall carry any coal or mineral oil (including naphtha and gasoline) unless the consignee is approved by the War Trade Board. (j) If a vessel is fitted with wireless telegraphy, the sending apparatus shall be sealed in such manner that no message can be sent without

1 The War Trade Board on Sept. 14, 1918, announced the following amendment to subparagraph (j) of Article V of General Rules No. 1, Governing Granting Licenses for Bunker Fuel, Port, Sea, and Ship's Stores and Supplies:

"If a vessel is fitted with wireless telegraphy, the sending apparatus shall be sealed in such manner that no message can be sent without the knowledge of the master. The master shall be responsible for seeing, first, that no message to the enemy is sent by wireless telegraphy; second, that no reports are made of vessels sighted or of any weather conditions experienced; third, that no wireless messages of any kind are sent within 200 miles of England, France, Portugal, or Italy, except emergency messages relating to vessels or persons in distress, unless specifically authorized by war-time radio instructions promulgated by authorized representatives of the Navy Department, in which case the specific provisions of such instructions are to be followed exactly." The following is added to General Rules No. 1 as Article VII thereof:

"No application for bunkers by any vessel under the American flag shall be approved excepting on the same understanding respecting wireless messages as is outlined in subparagraph (j) of Article V for neutral and unrequisitioned American vessels." (W. T. B. R. 229, Journ., 14: 24.)

The War Trade Board on Nov. 12, 1918, announced the following amendment of subparagraph (j) of Article V of "General Rules No. 1, Governing Granting Licenses for Bunker Fuel, Port, Sea, and Ship's Stores and Supplies":

"If a vessel is fitted with wireless telegraphy, the sending apparatus shall be sealed in such a manner that no message can be sent without the knowledge of the master. The master shall be responsible for seeing, first, that no message to the enemy is sent by wireless telegraphy; second, that no reports are made of vessels sighted or of any weather conditions experienced unless specifically authorized by war-time radio instructions promulgated by authorized representatives of the Navy Department, in which case the specific provisions of such instructions are to be followed exactly; third, that no wireless messages of any kind are sent within 200 miles of England, France, Portugal, or Italy, except emergency messages relating to vessels or persons in distress, unless specifically authorized by war-time radio instructions promulgated by authorized representatives of the Navy Department, in which case the specific provisions of such instructions are to be followed exactly."

The following shall be added to "General Rules No. 1, Governing Granting Licenses for Bunker Fuel, Port, Sea, and Ship's Stores and Supplies" as Article VII thereof:

"No application for bunkers by any vessel under the American flag shall be approved excepting on the same understanding respecting wireless messages as is outlined in subparagraph (j) of Article V for neutral and unrequisitioned American vessels." (W. T. B. R. 313, Journ., 16:29.)

the knowledge of the master. The master shall be responsible for seeing, first, that no message to the enemy is sent by wireless telegraphy; second, that no reports are made of vessels sighted or of any weather conditions experienced; third, that no wireless messages of any kind are sent within 200 miles of England, France, Portugal, or Italy, except emergency messages relating to vessels or persons in distress.

(k) The owner or charterer shall, upon request to do so by the War Trade Board, dispense with the services of the master, officers, or any members of the crew.

(1) No vessel shall proceed on any voyage or be chartered on trip or time charter without the previous consent of the War Trade Board or the Interallied Chartering Executive.

(m) No vessel shall carry any cargo which is consigned to or shipped by any person, firm, or corporation with whom citizens of the United States are prohibited by law from trading.

(n) No vessel shall carry to or from any European port any cargo which is consigned to or shipped by any person, firm, or corporation with whom citizens of any of the allied countries are prohibited by law from trading.

(0) No vessel shall be bought or sold without the previous approval of the United States Shipping Board, War Trade Board, or of the Interallied Chartering Executive.

(p) No vessel shall be laid up in port without the approval of the War Trade Board or the Interallied Chartering Executive.

(q) Every vessel clearing from a port of the United States shall observe all orders and requirements of the Committee on Ship Protection of the Emergency Fleet Corporation, of the Navy Department, of the Department of Commerce, and the Bureau of War Risk Insurance of the Treasury Department.

(r) All "bunkers" received by any vessel shall be used solely for the purposes of the vessel, and no portion of the bunkers shall be landed in any port or transferred to any other vessel.

(s) A report in duplicate shall be furnished to the War Trade Board each month, showing in detail the movement of all vessels subject to these regulations.

Regulations, registering new vessels as American, February 23, 1918.

[Journal, W. T. B., 7: 15.]

Action has been taken by the War Trade Board, in cooperation with the United States Shipping Board, to insure that all the vessels turned out under the shipbuilding program, or otherwise, shall be registered as American vessels, and thereby kept under the control of the United States Government. The following announcement was made public on February 23:

In order to effect this a ruling has been adopted by the War Trade Board, which will be incorporated as paragraph VI in General Rules

No. 1, Governing the Granting of Licenses for Bunker Fuel, Port, Sea and Ship's Stores and Supplies, and which reads as follows:

"No application for bunkers by any vessel built in the United States and completed after February 1, 1918, shall be granted, unless the vessel is documented under the American flag, or unless the United States Shipping Board shall have waived such documentation."

Clause (o) of paragraph V of the General Rules No. 1 above referred to, as amended' February 5, provides that no neutral or uncommandeered American vessel shall be bought or sold without the previous approval of the United States Shipping Board, the War Trade Board, or the Interallied Chartering Executive.

In the application of this clause (o) the War Trade Board has issued the following announcement of the principles which will guide their action in the administration of this paragraph, which is to the following effect:

"That applications for permission to buy or sell the vessels mentioned in clause (o) of paragraph V should be made in the first instance to the United States Shipping Board and that the War Trade Board would be governed by the decision of the United States. Shipping Board upon such application."

For the further guidance of applicants for permission to buy or sell vessels under section (o), the following rules of the Shipping Board have been issued:

"Applications to the Shipping Board for permission to buy or sell vessels under section (0) of paragraph V of the War Trade Board's General Rules No. 1 should include the following information:

"1. Name of vessel.

"2. Official number.

"3. Date of construction.

"4. Type of vessel.

"5. Gross tonnage.

"6. Dead-weight capacity.

"7. Speed.

"8. Name of purchaser

"9. Citizenship." 1

"10. Number of years' experience on the part of the purchaser in operating vessels. "11. Trade in which purchaser proposes to place the vessel.

"12. Total price.

"13. Price per dead-weight ton."

Regulations governing the exportation of dunnage, Sept. 9, 1918.

[Journal, W. T. B., 14:24.]

The War Trade Board on September 9, 1918, announced the addition of Paragraph VI to the General Rules No. 1, Governing Granting Licenses for Bunker Fuel, Port, Sea, and Ship's Stores and Supplies. The paragraph reads as follows:

No dunnage shall be allowed to proceed out of the United States or any of its territories or possessions on any vessel, except under license of the War Trade Board, either as ship's stores or as cargo. No applications for "bunkers" of any vessel shall be granted

1 "Attention is called to the following definition of a citizen of the United States, as given in section 2 of the Shipping Act approved September 7, 1916:

"That within the meaning of this act, no corporation, partnership, or association shall be deemed a citizen of the United States unless the controlling interest therein is owned by citizens of the United States, and, in the case of a corporation, unless its president and managing directors are citizens of the United States and the corporation itself is organized under the laws of the United States, or of a State, Territory, District or possession thereof.'" (Official footnote.)