Probably no more American merchant ships in the Far East according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van den dag voor Nederlandsch-Indië dated 14 June 1915

An item dated Washington 13 June reported that the US cabinet ordered her representatives abroad to ask to scrap the articles of the Trade Treaty which were contrary to the last law for seamen. As a result would the Pacific Mail Steamship Company probably be forced to stop her transatlantic service. It was not allowed for ships to leave American harbours if less as 75% of the crewmembers did not speak the language of the flag of the ship. Further more did the law not permit adding Eastern men to complete the crews of Japanese flagged ships. This was probably the end for American ships trading in the Far East.