dockyard. The words "United States" shall include the Canal Zone and all territory and waters, continental and insular, subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.

(b) In time of war or of national emergency, to be determined by the President by proclamation or Executive order, the President is hereby authorized and empowered, through the Secretary of the Navy, in addition to all other existing provisions of law and within the limit of amounts appropriated therefor

(1) To place an order with any person for such ships or war material as he may require and which are of the nature and kind usually produced or capable of being produced by such person. Compliance with all such orders shall be obligatory on any person to whom such order is given, and such order shall take precedence over all other orders and contracts theretofore placed with such person, except orders and contracts of or for the United States. If any person owning, leasing, or operating any factory equipped for the building or production of ships or war material for the Navy shall refuse or fail to give to the United States such preference in the execution of such an order, or shall refuse to build, supply, furnish, or manufacture the kind, quantity, or quality of ships or war material so ordered at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Navy, the President may take immediate possession of any factory of such person, or of any part thereof, without taking possession of the factory itself, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient, and the occupier and every officer and servant of the occupier of the factory, or part thereof, shall obey his directions.

(2) To modify or cancel any existing contract for the building, production, or purchase of ships or war material; and if any contractor shall refuse or fail to comply with the contract as so modified the President may take immediate possession of any factory of such contractor, or any part thereof, without taking possession of the factory itself, and may use the same at such times and in such manner as he may consider necessary or expedient, and the occupier and every officer and servant of the occupier of such factory, or part thereof, shall obey his directions.

(3) To require the owner or occupier of any factory in which ships or war material are built or produced to place at the disposal of the United States the whole or any part of the output of such factory, and to deliver such output or parts thereof in such quantities and at such times as may be specified in the order, at such reasonable price as shall be determined by the Secretary of the Navy.

(4) To requisition and take over for use or operation by the Government the factory, or any part thereof without taking possession of the factory itself, whether the United States has or has not any contract or agreement with the owner or occupier of such factory.

(5) To waive all provisions of law restricting the hours of labor of persons in the employ of the United States and of persons in the employ of contractors therewith when employed on work in connection with such ships or war material, and to waive all other restrictions and limitations affecting the labor of such persons, with a view to increase output or prevent delay.

(6) No person shall, directly or indirectly, induce any person employed in any factory and engaged on work for the United States to leave his employment or to cease such work.

(d) In time of actual war the President is hereby authorized and empowered, through the Secretary of the Navy, to draft into the naval service of the United States and to place under naval control any or all of the officers, agents, or employees of any factory equipped for the building or production of ships or war material for the Navy, and said officers, agents, and employees shall be thenceforth considered as members of the Naval Establishment of the United States, subject to all the conditions and restrictions imposed by the articles for the government of the Navy. The draft of the officers, agents, and employees of said factories shall be accomplished upon proclamation by the President requiring all such officers, agents, and employees of any factory therein named to submit themselves to draft and directing such officer or officers of the Naval Establishment as he may select for the purpose to prepare either by designation or by lot, as may be most expedient, a roster or rosters of the individual officers, agents, and employees so to be drafted. Upon the making of such roster or rosters notice shall be given to each person so enrolled of the place where and the time when he shall appear and enter upon his service; and any persons who shall in any manner willfully evade or resist such notice or shall fail to present himself for duty at the time and place named therein or within such time thereafter as may be necessary to accomplish his journey to the place appointed by the most expeditious route, shall be punished as hereinafter provided. And any officers, agents, or employees of such factory who may be drafted into the Naval Establishment of the United States hereunder shall during their service for the United States in the manufacture or production of ships or war materials receive for their services so rendered such compensation as they were theretofore accustomed to receive for similar services.

(e) Any person who violates or fails to comply with any provision of paragraphs (b), (c), (d), or any order given, direction, regulation, or restriction made or imposed thereunder, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $10,000 or to imprisonment for not more than two years, or both.

(f) Whenever the United States shall cancel or modity any contract, make use of, assume, occupy, requisition, or take over any factory or part thereof, or any ships or water material, in accordance with the provisions of the foregoing paragraphs (b), (c), (d), it shall make just compensation therefor, and in default of agreement upon the damages, compensation, price, or rental due by reason of any action hereunder the person to whom the same is due shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover his fair and reasonable damages in the manner provided for by section 24, paragraph 20, and section 145 of the Judicial Code.

Submarine activity since February 1, as reported for the five days February 1 to 6:

45 VESSELS, WITH A TOTAL TONNAGE OF 86,304, HAVE BEEN DESTROYED IN WAR ZONE FIRST FIVE DAYS OF FEBRUARY.

A compilation of results of first five days of the German submarine campaign since February 1, the day the new blockade order went into effect, follows: 1

Action of the Senate February 7, indorsing the President's position in breaking off diplomatic relations:

By a vote of 78 to 5 the Senate late yesterday afternoon recorded its emphatic approval of the President's severance of diplomatic relations with Germany. This action came after six hours of debate.

1 Up to Apr. 3 a total of 686 neutral vessels had been destroyed and 79 others which were attacked escaped. Of those sunk, 410 were Norwegian. 111 swedish, 61 Dutch, 50 Greek, 33 Spanish, 19 American, 1 Peruvian, and 1 Argentine.

A number of Senators expressed the view that the resolution was unnecessary, but declared they would vote for it so there might be no suspicion in Europe that the Senate and the American people were not solidly behind the President.

TEXT OF RESOLUTION.

The text of the resolution follows:

"Whereas the President has, for the reasons stated in his address delivered to the Congress in joint session on February 3, 1917, severed diplomatic relations with the Imperial German Government by the recall of the American ambassador at Berlin and by handling his passports to the German ambassador at Washington; and

"Whereas, notwithstanding this severance of diplomatic intercourse, the President has expressed his desire to avoid conflict with the Imperial German Government; and

ACTION IS APPROVED.

"Whereas the President declared in this said address that if in his judgment an occasion should arise for further action in the premises on the part of the Government of the United States he would submit the matter to the Congress and ask the authority of Congress to use such measures as he might deem necessary for protection of American seamen and people in the prosecution of their peaceful and legitimate errands on the high seas: Therefore be it "Resolved, That the Senate approves the action taken by the President as set forth in his address delivered before the joint session of Congress, as stated above."

Neutrals decline to follow the American Government. Diplomats and press of small countries point to peril for them. They still fear the power of Germany. Dutch comment that the United States is far from war, with ample food and war material:

LONDON, February 6.

The attitude of European nautrals in regard to the American suggestion that they break off diplomatic relations with Germany is being awaited with keen interest, but a canvass of the diplomatic representatives of these nations showed there was a general disposition to take time for consideration of the suggestion. Notwithstanding reports that Spain has taken action, the Spanish ambassador, Señor Merry del Val, who is being kept advised by his Government, had not received word up to noon to-day of any measures taken by his Government. The view prevailed in Spanish quarters that several days would be taken up with consideration of the various questions involved.

There are some indications already that Spain does not contemplate a rupture. They include the taking up of part of the Belgian relief work which the American rupture with Germany is deranging.

At the Swiss Legation it was said that although a preliminary note, in the nature of an inquiry, has been sent to Washington, it is not Switzerland's final reply. It has not been expected by entente

diplomats that Switzerland would take action which might involve her in the war, inasmuch as her frontiers would be exposed on three sides. From a military standpoint such action by Switzerland, it is pointed out, would not be wholly advantageous for the entente, and particularly for France, as it probably would mean that Germany would menace the unfortified French frontier adjoining Switzerland. At the Scandinavian legations the general view, in the absence of definite advices, was that the exposed Baltic frontages of these countries made their situation much more dangerous than that of America, which would tend to restrain them from any decisive action.

As a result of this attitude on the part of the various European neutrals, the best-informed entente diplomats are inclined to believe that the American move will not be followed by these nations, although it is expected to exert strong moral influence on them.

HOLLAND TO TAKE TIME TO CONSIDER SITUATION-NO REASON AT THIS MOMENT FOR SPECIAL ANXIETY, THE PREMIER TELLS PARLIAMENT.

THE HAGUE, February 6.

Premier Cort van der Linden made the following statement in the Second Chamber of the Dutch Parliament to-day:

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Serious events occupy the Government's attention. At the present moment it is impossible to give information regarding them, but the Government will not neglect to give the chamber information as soon as expedient. There is no reason at this moment for special

[Special cable to the New York Times-Dispatch to the London Times.]

AMSTERDAM, February 6.

Unquestionably President Wilson's words echo from the hearts of the freedom-loving Dutch, but it must not be forgotten that their position is one of extreme difficulty. Exposed as they are on the eastern frontier to an invasion from German troops and menaced with a complete stoppage of supplies by German submarines, they not unnaturally hesitate to take any steps calculated to expedite their annihilation at German hands.

President Wilson's words respecting the course other neutrals are likely to follow is widely reproduced here, where sympathy is entertained for the attitude adopted by the United States, though the difference in circumstances of that country and Holland are pointed out generally in the press of various shades of opinion from the Socialist Volk to the Catholic Tyd.

The Handelsblad intimates that the Dutch Government's previous record does not encourage the supposition that it will proceed to extreme lengths in the event of complications arising from the sinking of Dutch vessels. America is not exposed to the perils of immediate invasion by an enemy who has proved himself absolutely devoid of the bowels of mercy, but Holland, which has already suffered much, is prepared to suffer a great deal more rather than incur the fate of Louvain, Dinant, and Liege. She does not want to give the Kaiser the chance to proclaim to the world, "My heart bleeds for the poor Dutch."