Show WILL NOT r SEIZURES OF UNITED STATES NOTIFIES ENG LAND AND FRANCE THAT LAW LESS PRACTICES MUST STOP in note couched in vigorous term terms the entente power powers are warned that only radical change will satiety satisfy american americans washington Washing too the united states denouncing interference with neutral malls has no notified tilled great britain and prance france that it can no longar tolerate the wrongs which american citi citizen zeni i havo have buffered suffered and continue to suffer through the laflesh lav lesh practice those governments have indulged in and that only a radical change in policy restoring the united to its full right rights as a a neutral power will be satisfactory is this notification Is given in the latest american communication to the two govern government menta the of which was made public hy by the state depart monk mont may 27 the time in which the change must be effected Is s not lipecz bed but tho the united states expects prompt action onerous and vexatious abuses which have been perpetrated by the british aej an brench governments in seizing tind and censoring neutral ballf are recited in the co amun I 1 cation and ard answers are made maile to the legal ments contained in the reply of the entente to the first Ameil american can note on the subject it Is vigorously set forth that not only Ame american Ican commercial interests have been injured but rights right s of property have been violated a 1 I tho the rules ot of international la law and custom palpa dalpa bly disregarded notice la is served that the united states will eoon soon press claims against the british and french governments for tho the losses which al at ready have been su sustained tho rho governments of the united states great britain and franco france ap pear to be in substantial agreement as to principle the note nute says the method of applying the principle Is the chief cause of difference dif ferenc the government of tho united states must again insist empei eh alq al q that tho british and french gov ornaments ern orn menta ments do not obtain rightful juris diction of ships hy forcing or inducing them to visit their ports tor for the purpose of seizing their nails or thereby obtain greater bel liget nt rights as to euch such ships than they could exercise on the high seas for there is in the opinion of the government of the united state states no legal distinction be tween the seizures of malls at sea which Is announced as abandoned and their seizure from vessels volun harily or involuntarily in port the british and french practice amounts to an unwarranted limitation of the use by neutrals ot 0 the worlds world a htow high way for the transmission of correspondence spon dence after detailing instances of damage suffered suffer cd by americana americans because of the detention of the note concludes as follows the government of the united and arid other neutral countries and odd employed by the british tind end french authorities in lit interrupting Interrupt lug malls mails passing between the united and other neutral countries and batee between the united slates states and the en on biales of great britain can no ion longer or tolerate the tle wrongs which citizens of the united states bufter and continue continuo to suler through these methods to submit to a lawless practice of this character would epen upen tho the door to repeated ilo isolations lations of international law by the belligerent on the ground ot military of which the violator would bo be no tb solo sole judge manifestly a neutral nation cannot permit ita its rights on the high seas to be determined by the belligerents or the exercise of those rights to be permitted or denied arbitrarily by the government of a warring nation the rights of neutrals are as sacred as the rights of the belligerents and must be as strictly observed the government of the united states confident in the regard for international ter law and the rights of neutrals which the british and french governments have so often proclaimed and the disregard of which they have urged so vigorously wily against their enemies in tho the present war expects tho the present practice of the british and french authorities in the treatment of malls from or to the united state states to cease and belli belligerent rights aa as exercised to conform to the principle governing the passage of mall mail matter and to the recognized practice tirs of nations conj only y a radical change in the present british and french alicy rev restoring to the united states its full rights as a neutral power will h satisfy tills government ern ment |