Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 221, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1915 — BRITAIN SIEZES U. S. CARGOES OF MEAT Products Valued at $15,000,000 Declared Forfeited For Violation of British Order. [ARTICLE]

BRITAIN SIEZES U. S. CARGOES OF MEAT

Products Valued at $15,000,000 Declared Forfeited For Violation of British Order.

The British prize court Thursday condemned the greater part of American products forming the cargoes of four ships. The products are valued at several million dollars and are mostly meats and are declared forfeited to the crown. A small proportion of the products were released to claimants but the court over which Justice Samuel T. Evans presided declared the balance forfeited. The case has been pending several months and the accumulation of cargoes is valued at about $15,000,000. American packers, who would be the losers, are storming the castle to try to find a way to reopen the cases and are appealing to Washington and employing English counsel. Chicago packers were heavy losers and official Washington expresses itself as very little surprised at the finding and it is possible that the United States will make no demand of recovery. The shipments consisted of a great amount of canned meats consigned to Denmark, but whic hthe Birtish court holds were in reality destined for German soldiers. Rubber was conas gum and this deception justiled the siezure according to the court. The Morris, Armour, Swift, Hammond and Sulzberger meat packing firms were the losing shippers.