The Sif

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

This libel was filed in rem, and process, with a clause of foreign attachment, was issued against the Norwegian vessel Sif¡ The claim is for dispatch money earned by the appellees, who were the charterers of the Sif. The amount of the dispatch money is not disputed. It was paid by the appellees to the French government. The Sif is a tramp steamer, and was owned by a Norwegian corporation of Bergen, Norway. The charterers shipped a cargo of flour from Newport News, Va., to Nantes, France, on a sale to the French government dated January 22, 1916. A firm of ship brokers in…