A sident earthquake in the Nethor= lands Indies today caused serious damage at Kakas. where 30 houses were destroyed, and at Lolapan, where 108 houses were levelled and one bridge caved in, There were no Death of Anthony Fokker The action of the American nations was aroused by the recent naval Dattle involving three British cruisers and the German pocket battleship Admiral Grat Spee, which brought. humorous British warships and. one: French battle cruiser into the zone, The protest specifically cited the naval engagement off the Uruguayan const and the pursuit of the French estal, the Formose, by the Grat Spee, within the safety, zone, "AL these facts which affect the neutrality of American waters compromise the aims of continental protection as, provided "by the Declaration Panama," the protest said.
It the rule prohibiting aid to any belligerent. vessels within the safety. zone had been in effect at the time fof the naval battle off the coast Uruguay, that country could righttully have refused entrance to the Grat Spee.
The State Department explained that the proposed punishment of belligevents refers only to individual warcraft and is not a retroactive sanetion, For Instance, if a British destroyer shelled a German merchant man, it would be banned from Amer-Tean'porls under the new regulations.
sister ship, not having committed fan unneutral' aet, would) not be penalized, The penalty would not be extended any unit Jarger than an me dividual ship, according to, present indications, "Neither would ships. which had violated: the safely zone previously be penalized for past in-Fractions.-United Press.
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