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New Jersey National Guard, Cavalry. 



New York National Guard, Engineers. 



New York National Guard, Cavalry. 



Ohio National Guard, Engineers. 



Ohio National Guard. 



District of Columbia National Guard. 



Maryland National Guard. 



Field Hospital Corps. 



Illinois National Guard. 



Pennsylvania National Guard. 



Virginia National Guard. 



Michigan National Guard. 



West Virginia National Guard. 



Missouri National Guard. 



Ohio National Guard, Field Artillery. 



U. S. -Army Engineers. 



Florida National Guard. 



South Carolina National Guard. 



Coast Artillery. 



Surgeon, U. S. Navy. 



New Jersey National Guard. 



Kentucky National Guard. 



Alabama National Guard, Field Artillery. 



North Carolina National Guard, Cavalry. 



Iowa National Guard, Engineers. 



Norfolk Navy Yard. 



Georgia National Guard. 



U. S. Reg. Motor Service. 



Rhode Island National Guard, Field Artillery. 



French Infantry Regiment. 



Fort Slocum, New York, Field Artillery. 



U. S. Receiving Ship, Brooklyn, New York, 



Vermont National Guard. 



Naval Training Station, Newport. Rhode Island. 



U. S. S. "Southery." 



Connecticut National Guard, Field -Artillery. 



Connecticut National Guard, Naval Militia. 



Officers* Training Corps, New Haven, Connecticut. 



Coast Artillery Corps, Fort Adams, Newport, Rhode Island. 



\J. S. Navy Recruiting Force, Hartford, Connecticut. 



U. S. S. "Genrgia." 



U. S. S, "Nahma." 



Connecticut National Guard, Band. 



Massachusetts Coast Artillery, 



Kilties. 



Base Hospital, France. 



Aeroplane Reserve Corps. 



Medical Reserve Corps. 



New York National (iuard. Coast .Artillery. 



New York National Guard. 



U. S. S. "Kearsarge." 



American Field Service. Munitions Transport Drivers. 



A SHIP FOR RUBBER CARGOES. 



NO MOHE DENTAL RUBBER FOR GERMANY. 



Agents of the Department of Justice believe that the smug- 

 gling of dental rubber to Germany has finally been stopped. 

 The story is an interesting one. 



Strangely enough, while Germans and Frenchmen make won- 

 derful physicians and surgeons, they are said to be abominable 

 dentists. Certain it is that in Germany American dentists have 

 the very cream of the business. The Kaiser himself patronizes 

 one of a colony of about IS in Berlin who charged extravagant 

 prices, maintained pretentious establishments and had practi- 

 cally no competition. 



When war was declared their supplies of dental rubber were 

 cut off. The German Government commandeered almost all 

 the rubber in the country and the British blockade ships seized 

 rubber in every shape. 



Then the dentists started smuggling it through from America. 

 The dentist would send his wife to New York. She would get 

 a quantity of dental rubber and make bargains for its trans- 

 portation with stewards, probably on the lines between New 

 York and Copenhagen. 



These men carried large bundles aboard their ships at night. 

 At Copenhagen the rubber was expressed to Berlin. Letters 

 were sent over in the same way, both in violation of United 

 States laws. Agents of the Department of Justice and of the 

 Revenue Service shadowed some of tlie women and the traffic 

 stopped. 



RUBBER LEADS LONDON EXPORTS TO AMERICA. 



The total value of declared exports from London to the United 

 States for the five months ended May 31, 1917, amounted to 

 $78,779,911, compared with $77,115,135 for the same period in 

 1916. Of these totals rubber amounted to $20,696,269 and $31,- 

 447,629 respectively. Although the total exports for the period 

 have increased only about $1,665,000, rubber shows a gain of 

 nearly $11,000,000, and in fact forms 40 per cent of all exports. 

 No wonder U-boat commanders are disheartened ! 



'T'HE recent complacency of large .\merican manufacturers re- 

 ■*■ garding crude rubber supplies finds explanation in the fact 

 that the United States Shipping Board, in consultation with the 

 Committee on Ruliber of the Advisory Commission of the Coun- 

 cil of National Defense, has arranged for the German steamship 

 "Andalusia." which has been interned in Manila, Philippine 

 Islands, since the beginning of the war, to be placed on berth 

 from Hongkong and Nagasaki to carry rubber, hides, gunnies, 

 etc., to Seattle, Washington. The ship will load at Singapore 

 and probably be ready to leave during the latter part of August. 

 The former Hamburg-American Line steamship "Andalusia" 

 was built in 1896 and is of 5,433 gross or 3,371 net tons. For 

 insurance purposes she is rated first class. Inquiries regarding 

 freight space, etc., should be addressed to Frank Waterhouse & 

 Co,, Seattle, Washington. 



CHEMICALS IN LICENSED EXPORT LIST. 



PRESIDENT WILSON issued a proclamation July IS, 

 declaring it unlawful to export certain indispensable 

 commodities from the LInited States, unless licensed to do so. 

 Among the materials so prohibited, named in a revised list 

 published July 22 by Secretary Redfield, may be noted chemr 

 icals and ingredients used in the rubber industry, as follows: 

 Benzol, toluol, naphtha, benzine, gasoline, corn oil, linseed 

 oil, ammonia salts, rosin, sulphur and turpentine. 



It is more than likely that other materials may be placed- 

 on this list under future executive proclamations. Among 

 them it is thought that cotton and its manufactures are likely 

 to be included. 



.Applications for licenses may be made to the Bureau of 

 Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Division of Export Li- 

 censes, 1435 K street, Washington, D. C, or to any of the 

 branches of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce — 

 New York, Boston, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, San 

 Francisco and Seattle. 



In applying for a license to export any of the commodities 

 covered by the President's proclamation, applicants should 

 give the following information in triplicate form: 



a. Quantity. 



b. Description of goods. 



c. Name and address of consignee. 



d. Name and address of consignor. 



The license will be good for only 60 days and at the ex- 

 piration of that time must be renewed, and if not shipped 

 within that time a new application must be made. 



The various branch offices of the Bureau of Foreign and 

 Domestic Commerce have been given full instructions as to 

 the disposition of all applications for licenses. 



It is the desire of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 

 Commerce to miniinize the exporter's difficulties as much as 

 possible, and therefore wherever practicable the district 

 offices will be authorized to issue the licenses. It is thought, 

 however, that inany of the applications may have to be for- 

 warded to Washington for decision. 



The exporter receives his license in duplicate, and turns 

 both copies over to the steamship company in exchange for 

 a steamship permit. The steamship company turns both the 

 original and duplicate over to the customs authorities with 

 its clearance papers. 



Difficulties arising where the goods covered by a license 

 are not forwarded in one lot will be settled in one of several 

 ways. In the first place, a man may apply for and receive as 

 many licenses as he requires. A "balance license" is being 

 arranged for, to take care of any balance of goods which has 

 not been shipped under the original license. A "blanket 



