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Show ! CONTRABAND OF WAR. Parliament White Paper Is Issued Upon Subject. LONDON. Feb. ll.-A Parliament white puper. Issued today, gives the correspondence correspond-ence between Great Britain and Russia relating to contraband of war between February VJ. Hi, and October 21. It covers generally everything known through the Associated Press dispatches and shows the firm attitude of Foreign Secretary Lansdowne in dealing with Russia's contentions. con-tentions. The paper is chiefly Interesting in showing show-ing the aculeness of the controversy at one period. Lord Lansdowne. in a dispatch dis-patch to Sir Charles Hardlnge. the British Brit-ish Embassador at St, Petersburg, August 10, describes tho situation arising from Russia's "unprecedented attitude" with reference to contraband as one of the utmost ut-most grnvliy, and said that unless this condition was ended without delay, Great Britain would be constrained to take such precautions ns ie thought desirable to protect her commerce Another dispatch from Lord Lansdowne off October 10, to Embassador Hnrdiuge, mentions a conversation which Lord Lansdowne Lans-downe had with Count Benckendorff. the Russian Embassador to Great Britain, in which Lord Lunsd'jwne Informed him that the decision of Russia making coal contraband con-traband obliged Great Britain to use a special vigilance in regard to the supply of coal to he bejllgerents. The correspondence concludes with an expression of the satisfaction of Groat Britain at the fact that Russia had modified modi-fied her views in making rice and provisions provis-ions conditional contraband, but regretting that this principle was not applied to coal. |