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Germany and Austria Complain that Submarines Are Being Shipped in Parts to Canada
German and Austrian diplomats formally protest to the U.S. State Department that American shipyards are secretly building submarine components for Britain and sending them to Canada for assembly, an early flashpoint over American neutrality in the World War.
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Omaha Daily Bee 187?-1922 · February 21, 1915 · Page 1
1 min readWASHINGTON, Feb. 20.
Germany and Austria, through their ambassadors here, complained to the State department today that submarines were being built in the United States for Great Britain and shipped in parts to Canada.
In a statement on the subject the German embassy says:
"The plants of Bethlehem and the Union Iron Works at San Francisco are, according to reliable information, sending the component parts of submarines ordered by the British government to Canada. Submarines for England also are being built at Boston and Seattle."
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