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Show PREPARING NOTE ON I NEUTRAL SHIPPING United States Hopeful That Great Britain Brit-ain Will Adopt Generous Policy oh Matter. WASHINGTON. Aug. 31. State department de-partment officials disclosed today that they do not expect modified practices un- : der the British orders-in-councll, an- nounced yesterday by the British embas- j sy, will cover the general British policy toward neutral shipping, against which the United States now is preparing its new protest. No concrete propositions for relaxation I for interference with shipping have reached the state department, it was stat- ! ed, and such general discussion of the subject as has taken place will not affect this government's note to Great Britain I now in preparation. Arrangements for assisting in the iden- I tlflcatlon of goods bought In Germanv I but not paid for before March 1, whlcli I are designed to release quantities or! American cargoes held up in neutral ports I fmch as Rotterdam, are at present being be-ing carried on extra-governmentallv between be-tween the British embassy and' the for- ; clgn trade advisers of the state depart- I I tnent These steps, however, affect special spe-cial cases and are not considered by American officials as a change in the at- ' tltude of the British government in regard I to the representations by the United Slates respecting neutral shipping. |