Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — COAL A CONTRABAND. [ARTICLE]

COAL A CONTRABAND.

Great Britain's Action in Dine with American Wishes. Great Britain's action in instructing her colonics to regard coal as contraband of war in the event of hostilities between the United States and Spain, administration officials say, is in line with the wishes of the President and the naval authorities/ Pressure will be exerted upon France, Hayti and San Domingo to accomplish the same result, and some attention is being given by the State De-

partnient to the South American countries, with a view to securing from them a declaration of the contraband character of coal ns well as an announced determination on their part not mo sell either to Spanish or American vesads of war a supply of fuel greater than is necessary to enable them to steam to the next home port.