Important Court Decision: No Attachment Without Proof of Owners' Guilt 8
New York, Oct. 16.
The Federal Court has decided that a steamship cannot be attached by the Government when mem: bers of the crew smuggle liquor or narcotics into the United States without the knowledge of the owners lof the vessels, The judgment is the sequel of the case of the British The Court expressed the that a ship must be "tin the possession. of guilty persons" with the consent of the owner to be subject wre—Reuter's American take wholeheartedly to ce-operate in the restoration of Russia as soon as the necessary measures have beea. taken to revive French confidence.
The note will be communicated unofficially to certain Governments specially interested, particularly the United States, Czecho-Slovakii and Rumania, before being sent to under- Moscow.—Reuter.
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