Salt Lake Herald | 1904-08-12 | Page 2 | Great Britain is Dissatisfied

J T t 0 lS S 4 Russian Definition of Contra Contraband I Ii i 4 band of War Wa N MIGHT INCLUDE EVERYTHING V G GIl i S t Il DOUBT ASTO THE TE STATUS OF A At At t PRIZE i J t Aug 11 The Associated d Press learns that Great Britain is dia dis dissatisfied with atti attitude attitude tude In In the case of jf the sh steamer r Knight Commander sunk by the Vlad Vladivostok I squadron and continues to press the Russian government to make substantial su modifications of the tle list oC or articles regarded as contraband Count the ambassador amba to Great Britain called at foreign office yesterday and for an hour with Foreign Secretary Lans Laris Lansdowne Lansdowne downe the latter bringing u up the ques que question question tion of the changes which should bc be made in the Russian regulations In or order order order der to make them acceptable to the commercial nations na besides pointing out the inadvisability or O declaring food fuel and clothing contraband un under under der all circumstances Lord Lansdowne dwelt on the sweep ing lag character of proclamation tion some of the tte provisions of or which after specifying sp various goods as con contraband contraband closed with the word et it etcetera etcetera cetera which Lord Lansdowne point pointed ed out can include anything and everything the Russian authorities de desire desire desire sire As this Is a Serious rIous restriction on neutral shipping ship Lord Lansdowne insisted that the regulations should not contain generalities of that kind In reply Lord Lansdowne was as assured assured assured that Russia had no desire de jre to un unnecessarily unnecessarily unnecessarily necessarily hamper neutral shipping but that she can not afford to permit to receive supplies which would facilitate her military operations