Salt Lake Tribune | 1916-09-09 | Page 2 | Declares Blacklist Policy will Stand

DECLARES BLACKLIST POLIGrWILL STANO; LONDON, Sept. 8." It is not likely that (it-eat Britain will change her I blacklist policy at the request of the ; L'nired States," said Lord Robert Cecil, , minister of war trade, in discussing the possible effect of recent American retaliatory re-taliatory legislation. To the Associated Press Lord Robert slated that a reply re-ply to the lilac I; list prot est made by the United States may be expected soon. Lord Robert, however, declined to enter en-ter into the details of t jc contents ot the reply beyond the statement that the principle embodied in British legislation leg-islation forbidding trading with an enemy ene-my country is unlikely to be surrendered surren-dered i" any measure. The minister of war trade professed himself to be puz.led by provisions i the revenue bill passed .by congress at Washington dealing with' the prohibition prohibi-tion of imports, as such orders, he said, were adopted strictly in an effort to conserve tonnage and were applied accordingly.