Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-22 | Page 2 | Order in Council not Recognized by United States

ORDER IN COUNCIL NOT RECOGNIZED BY UNITED STATES v WASHINGTON", Feb. 21. Although informed in-formed of the mortification of the terms, of the British blockade as promulgated ' in Tendon today, state department " officials offi-cials are re-servinp judgment upon the sultject until the new order can he carefully care-fully studied. On its face it appears that todays announcement is intended to assert as-sert unequivocally the ripht of prize courts to condemn a neutral vessel with liPicar- Co if the latter is of enemy origin or itj bound for an enemy country. The original order In council of March l.r.. allowed considerable latitude in .the disposit ion of such vessels and car-tfofts, car-tfofts, and while ships bound directly to and from Cernian ports with their cargoes were deemed subject to ennfisen t Ion after the expirnllon of the period of grace, the same risirt rules were not applied to neutral- ships ca rryi ns poods bound to or from C,f inn ny or Austria t h rough adjacent ad-jacent iicut i .il countries. The practienl effpet of the new order is expecied to be to throw Into prize court a t once ma ny ships a nd cn rgnes which heretofore h ve been subject to detention, deten-tion, but not to confiscation. The Intterl States has refuser! to recognize rec-ognize the legality of the blockade orders In council, and has reserved all rights under Internal inn a law an interpreted here. Jilplomn tie exchanges through which, it is hoped event lallv lo clear up the whole complicated ' problem and obtain ob-tain reparation whore American prpp-ertv prpp-ertv rkhts are invrlved, virtually are at a standstill .lust nnv. ft