New Britain Herald Newspaper, February 18, 1915, Page 3

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Great Britain’s Complete Reply to American Protest Denies That Depression in American Industries Is Due to the Activity of the British 18 complete of Feb. and Brit- reply to which for an early {reatment of Washington, —Great second ain's the Ameri on December asked improvement in the American commerce by the British | fleet, was made public last night by mutual agreement between the state department and the British foreign office. The an note protest, 08 note, addressed to Ambassador Page b r Edward Grey, under date of Itebruary 10, denies that the de- pression in American industries is due to the activity of the British fleet and uggests among other causes the shortage of shipping facilities, the conseauent diminution of cotton trade and the destruction of mar neutiral | vessels by submarine mine; atd by the enemy indiscriminately After giving long and answer to the charge that American ships and cargoes were being unduly detained, the communication contains in its concluding paragraph the nouncement that Great RBrita tends to take retaliatory me against the German submarine paign against enemy ships, but not reveal their mature. | No Clear Division. ! Conceding that foodstu intended for the civil population of a coun- try are not contraband, the British government points out that *“in any country in which there ex uch tremendous organization for as now obtains in Germany, is no clear division between whom the government is a detailed | an- | in. sures - does W there those responsible for feed- ing and those whom it is not.” “It will still be our endeavor,” says the final paragraph, “‘to avoid injury and loss to neutral, but the answer by the German government of their intention to sink merchant vessels and their cargoes without verification of their nationality or character nd without making any provision for the safety of non-combatant crews or giv- ing them a chance of saving their lives has made it necessary for his majesty’s government to consider what measures they should adopt to pro- tect their interests. It is impos- sible for one belligerent to depart from rules and precedents and for the other to remain bound by them.” Legal Principles Discussed. Supplementing the ‘preliminary re- ply of several weeks ago, the new note is about 10,000 words long and includes not only statistical argument, but a further discussion of the legal principles involved. Foremost, how. ever, is the denial of the British go ernment that the depression in Amer- ican industries referred to in the American note, was due to the al- leged interference of the British fleet with American commerce, or “the re- sult of any exercide of belligerent rights.” Since the presentation of the pre- liminary note, Sir Edward states that he has had “further opportunity of examining into the trade statistics of the United States as embodied in the customs returns in order to see l\vhethel the belligerent action of Great Britain has been in any way the cause of trade depression which your excellency (Ambassador Page) describes as existing in the United States, and also whether the seizures of vessels or cargoes which have been made by the British navy have in- flicted any loss on American owners for which our existing machinery pro- vides no means of redress. “In setting out the results of my in- vestigation,” writes the British secre- tary, “I think it well to take the op- portunity of giving a general review of the methods employed by his majesty’'s government to intercept contraband trade with the enemy, of their consistency with the admitted right cof a belligerent to intercept sugh trade, and also of the extent to which they have endeavored to meet the representations and complaints from time to time addressed to them AT T Fleet—England to Take Retaliatory Measures Against Germany. on behalf of the ment. United States govern- Suffering PDue to War, Towards the close of your note of the 28th of December. your excel- lency described the ituation pro- duced by the action of Great Britain as a pitiful one to the commerciai in- | of the United that many of the great the country were suffering because their products were denied long tablished markets in neutral European countries contiguous to the nations at war, “Itis these d: CesmMopo States and said industries of terests es- in are true fthat and finance part must of n wa that in the outbreak no way for the trade unfortunately vs, when trade tan, any war, war of any magnitude, grievous dislocation that of the part in the will realiz mendous strugele for which Great Britain oneible, it is impossible any country to escape all injury but for such his majes notto blame.” Nir Edward then points out that only eight out of ships sailing frem the United States for neutral European countries have been placed in the prize courts and that only forty- five have been ‘‘temporarily detained to enable particular consignments of cargo to be discharged for the pur- pese of prize court proceedings.” result in commerce, tions which including take no cellen Your this tre- of re- ex- is and government are loss, Export Situation. The note does not gc into detail to American ships detained on high seas or taken to British por search. The next paragraph analyzes the statistics of impor from the United States and makes the observa- tion that “it is, therefore, clear that, if cotton be excluded, the effect of the war has been not to increase, but practically to arrest the decline of American exports which was in pro- gress earlier in the year, in fact any decrease in American exports which is attributed to the war is essentially due te cotton.’ Pointing out that Great Britain has never declared the for cotton contraband or interfered with its shipment, the note then remarks that imports of cotton to the United Kingdom fell as heavily as those to other countries and the same ‘‘no doubt was true of France.” “The general result,” it continues, to show convincingly that the operations of eat Britain the cause of diminution in the n exports, and that of the United States in the unfavorable condition which your excellency describes, the cause ought in fairness to be sought cl where than in the activities of majesty’s naval forces.” Moreover, the British communica- tion contends that even though trade between the United States and the allies has diminished from normal, the commerce with neutral countries as compared with previous years has been maintained and the inference “may fairly be drawn’ that a “su stantial part of this trade was in fact intended for the enemy count g0- ing through neutral ports by routes to which it was previously unaccus- temed.” Shortage of Shipping. Taking up some of the “inconveni- enees to which this great war is ex posing the commerce of all neutral countries,” the note points out that undoubtedly the “serious shortage in shipping available for ocean transport and the consequential result of exces- e freights” have had much to do with the situation but a denial is en- tered that Great Britain's acti brought about this shortage, added that only ten neutral are awaiting adjudication in prize court. Great Britain declares that she, are any volume of Amer if the commerce his ies, too, is suffering from the shortage of | freight other shipping and a, rise in acutely if not more than tions” and has taken na- “every step con- sistent with belligerent interests to in- crease the tonnage available for the iransport of sea-borne commerce.” Destruction of Neutral Ships. The hope is expressed that the United States will realize that the de- tention of neutral ships by the allies has not contributed not nearly so much to the shortage of shipping as “has the destruction of neutral ves- sels by submarine mines indiscrimi- nately laid by the enemy on the high seas, many miles from the coast, in the track of merchant ve: “Up till now,” continue “twenty-five neutral ve reported as destroyed by mines on the high seas; quite apart from all ques tions of the breach of treaties and the note, :ls have been destruction of lify thers more r n for protest on the score of bei- ligerent interference with innocent neutral trade through the mines scat- tered by the enemy than through the Sritish exercise of the right of seizing contraband. 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Combinations at 93¢, $1.50, $2,00, Drawg Sold here exclusively This smre WIII Be Glo‘ed All Dn)’ Feh 22 Washl Hartford, Conn. Washington, Febh. —With the|forces planned to substitute a com-| ending of the longest continuous ses. | Promise ship Dbill for the Weeks biil| slon of the senate on record, due to|lD the house, pass it and then put| X D, i it through the senate. It seemed | the republican filibuster over the ship | certain that this compromise bill purchase bill, it seemed evident that|would provide that the government | the administration would have to|should go out of the ship owning compromise on certain phases of the | busginess soon after the European war measure in order to it. The|is ended and that no interned ships 'cight democratic senators who op-|of belligerent powers should be | posed the bill, some of whom Lought by the government. It seemed pictured in the accompanying ilius- | possible that if the compromise bill | tration, still stand out against Presi-|is passed there will be no extra ses- | dent Wilson. The administration |sion of congress, to the enemy, the British note traces | obtain adequate satisfaction for an the origin of the right of interception | invasion of their rigits which is con- jand speaks of the mew devices en- | travy to the law of nations. the only | { countered from time to time for dis course which is consistent with soun: patching contraband goods to an’ en- | principle is that they should be re- emy. ferred to that mode of redress and Deotrifie of Continuons Voyage. that no diplomatic action should be Here the doctrine of contimuous | t4Ken until their legal remedies have voyage as enunciated during the Civil | P66R eXhausted and they are in a po- war By Secretary Seward fs quoted | $1tion to show prima facie denfal of at length and the question of ulti- [ Justice mate destination argued in legal de- Polioy: in’ Mwo tAmerdcan Wil tail. To justify the detention of sus- T = 1 pecetd cargoes when passing between e e eore i mentaecallajiiot nutral countries and taking them | it followed this course with its own into ports for examination, the cases | ships during the American Civil war of American practice during the Span- | ang the Spanish-American war ish-American war also e cited, and In cosnection with the subject of the note says these precedents are - | jotentio Ambassacor Page is re consistent with the statement of the | yinded that he has S American government made to the fLiac datnns ow besu ey British ambassador at Washington on | Pui i aps oish foreign - ofice AheNTthifoTE N ovamper W nfeR I ins aca il RS RS (SR SE D RTTGE that search should be made on the | ~merican colors detained and of high seas “at the time of the visit,” | G 1Y Shipment of cargo in which | and that the “conclusion of the search | AMerican citizen appears to be should rest upon the evidence found | PATtY interested: not only in the fa on the ships under investigation ana | °f dctention notified to your excel- L s Tertainod from | lency, but, so far as is practicable, the external sourc The foreign secre- [ 8FOUnds upon which the vessels tary reiterates that the d size | €4rg0° had been detained are of dienbinins necessitat rch in | “Ommunicated to you, a concession Sl eate which enablés any United States citi- zen to take steps at onc ‘otec No New Belligerent Right. T To take a ship into port, the note Question of Foofstatts | contends, is not to be looked upon o - ; * N R e Turning to the question of condi- adaptation of the existing right to the | tional contraband and foodstuffs, the modern conditions of commerce,” and | note sayvs: like all belligerent rights, it must be .“ exercised “with due regard {o neutral No country had maintained mote interests, and it would be unreason- | "OUtlY than Great Britain in modern abla to expect a neutral vessal * te|times the principle that & belligerent | make long deviations from her course | Should abtain from interference with for this purpose.” For this reason, it the foodstuffs intended for the civil is asserted, neutral merchantmen were | POPulation. The circumstances of encouraged to visit some British port | the bresent struggle are causing his on their route to avoid the alternative | of keeping a vessel waiting, perhaps for tlays, for better weather conditions | to whether on the high seas. framed as they were with the object Realizing that in no war have neu- | of protecting so far as possible tae tral individuals “not occasionally suf- | Supplies which were intended for the fered from unjustified belligerent ac- [ ¢ivil population, are effective for the tion,” Great Britain suggests that op- | burpose, or suitable to the conditions portunities for adequate compensa- | bresent. The principle which I have tion are offered in the Rritish pr indicated above is one which his n courts, details of which proceedings | Jesty’s governme has constantly are given. had to uphold 1inst the opposition | “It is the common experience of [0l continental powers In the ah. every war,” continues the note, “that | Sence of some certainty that the rule neutrals whose attempts to engage in | Would be respected by both parties to suspicious trading are frustrated by a | this conflict, we feel reat doubt belligerent are wont to have recourse [ Whether it should be regarded as an to their government to urge that dip- | €stablished principle of international lomatic remonstranc should be | law made on their behalf and that redress | Bismarck's Position, A an € C e e of re Bismarck's answer to the Kiel Cham- dress is open .to them in the courts of | her of Commerce in 1884 in connec a civilized country by which they can | tion with the treatment of rice & majesty's government. some anxiety as the existing rules with re- | ird to conditional contraband, contraband in the French-Chincse | being impose war | “shoula take The measure in question,” Prince ith the ener Bismarck is quoted as saying has I have givg for its object the shortening of th oncludes Sir | war by increasing the difficulties of | which we ha the enemy and is a justifiable tep in | cannot help fd war If impartially enforced against all | were more ful [ neutral ships forts which w The British note here remarks: |inflicting any “His majesty’'s government are dis- | neutral inter posed to think that the same view is | plaints which still maintained by the German gov- | the administra | ernment Another circumstance | which led to which ix now coming to light is that | excellency han an elaborate machinery has been or- | of December ganized by the enemy for supply of | made foodstuffs for the use of the German My hope § army from overseas, Under these ci vhich 1 have | cumstances it would be absurd to give | ized, and whel any definite pledge that in cases where naval operatio the supplies can be groved to be for American tradd | the wuse of the ememy forces they tries, and 1 should be given complete immunity by have acted a the simple expedient of dispatching fundamental pi them to an agent in a neutral port tional law, it No Clear Division. government an “The reasom for drawing a distinc- . States that hig tion between foodstuffs intended for Dave hithert the civil population and those for the their belligeres eible consider armed forces or enemy government disappears when the distinction be- | Of Deutrals tween the civil population and the re armed forces jtself disappears | TELLS OF “In any country in which there ex- o ists such tremendous organization for ' President of war as now obtains in Germany there cires Sl s no clear division between tho whom the government is responsiblc An exception for feeding and those whom it is not n China was st church u socle of th Iixperience shows that the power to requisition will be used to the fullest extent in order to make sure that the Woman's president « ‘anton wants of the military are supplied, nd however much goods may be im- Outlook he ported for civil use, it is by the mil- | with lantern sl itary that they will be consumed it Mr. Graybill military exigencies require it, especial- batical year in 1y now that the ( man government lecture tour ag have taken control of all the food- story of the py stuffs in the country.” | the education 3 . Chinamen that Transfer of Enemy's Ships. China: to tha il After giving statistics tending to |edly the worst show that supplies are reaching neu- | manhood, he sa tral ports from the United States to ! of the botter ek “an unprecedented extent” and recit- | hboth mentally ing efforts on the part of his govern- b ment ) deal as leniently as possi- ble with neutral interests,” Sir Ed-| SUNDAY 8O ward points out that Great Britain | phe second has recognized “the transfer to a nei- | Byitain Sunday tral flag of enemy ships belonging to ' pight was atte companies which were incorporated persons, Follow in the enemy country but all of whose = Rey. Henry W, shareholders were neutral even | gerfes of lectu waiving objections to companies “in- |the Making,” h in corporated Germany which were tory Books” N subsidiary to and owned by American | ture on “The corporations,” the only condition | Job, the Psalm D.D. D. 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