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The follaning is forwarde4 tor ~ tnfornation of Federal Reserve
other statenents !rom the War Tradt Loard will be sent out as received •
, WAR TRADE J::OARD
lti\5 K Street, N. W,
Washingtcn.
Janua.%7 3, 1918.
Mr. She~n Allen,
Federal Reserve Board~
Washington, D.
c.
Dear Sir:
ln accordance with what the secretary of t~e w~r Trade Board) Mr.
Be,nnett 1 said to you over the :t-elephone this a.!ternoon, 'I am sending you a
copy of two press notices vrmich we are releasing for publicat:.on tomorrow
morning, Md ho,Ping that JO'\l wH1 find it posdble to get special financial
pt.lblicity for them, by wire, to your JDerober banks. We are sending cop:l.es of
the sta.tett.ent~ to a select list of bank• (s'applied b9 us by the Comptroller of
the ~reasurr); on our general nailing list.
I hope to have the pleasure of talking over this n:atter with you.
personally before long.
Very truly yours,
W.A:R TRADE BOARD
By
LOUIS E. VAN NORldAN
Chief, Division of
Info~tion.
the War Tr~4~~ Board announces that the following concern has been
removed from ths Enemy Trading List:
Flack & Son1
~xico
City 1 Mexico.
·The Board further ann4>unoes that the following correction should
be acts ia the list; naa.ely, 11 Nicolas Castano, Havana.1 Ol.tba." ~ should be
changed to read "Nicolas Castano 1 Ca~otillo 1 Cisnfuf{;os, Cuba".
Released for publication. Janaary 4, 1918.
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!be War fra"' Board batt issued the following annountemertt:
The War !l'ra4e Boar4 has autboHud br.a.nehel. t>l Ameriaan cor,Ptltat:ita8
Otber Ameri~an ho11ses established and engaged in bueriness in neutral colinttiea ana :l.n countries associated with the Uni-t-ed States in 't.l'l~ war tQ accept
•4 »&1 dr.att,e, t() 4~4\teto $111b4~, Warehwse4.. or otherwise stored.J and to pertoN oibit atili'41ar aats, notwithstanding such a.ets may involve trading with
1tenelliie•" or "allies ot enemies 11 1 when wch acts are necessary to prevent a
breach or violation of a. law or corr.mercial oblige.tion enforC~:~.blc in the courts
of ~he cQ.\ntry in which such branch is established; f.ROl!I:JEP,.., HOW~,1E.E,
(l) That nothing herein ~ontained shall ba held or cons";r!J.ed to auth·orize
said corporations) houses or their branchas" to hereafter ~no.erta.Jre or enter
,ll}to ~Q~:rtraqts o.r budness or cotmJeroial tranDa.ctions which will intTo!ve tra.ding With "enemies'' or ''ensmt allies 11 in order to carry oat or perf.r)rm trie same;
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and
!l'ha.t evert case involving transactions of tra..d:tng wH.h the 11 enem:r"
or "ene.o:.:r allies" be reported to th.e War Trade. Board '"rithin thirj;y(30) 0.<\fS ·
.rtel" ths occt~rence
thereat, \lpon a. form to be furnished by the Wa.l' Trade
Board,
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