Show ur UP WA Boston Doston Herald The government huts hns nn an Inter eating and complicated problem on Its hands In time the questIon ot of decidIng on what constitutes 8 contraband of war Obvious ObvIously arms and ammunition In Intended intended tended tor or the use uso of a bE belligerent ma mabe may be fairly clas classed d under thIs title and the general usages ot of nations would ap Illar to 10 Justify the English In seizIng vessels which contained t men on oem their way to the Transvaal for the purpose ot of JoinIng the arm army of the Joers To have hae permission to seize till the guns whIch the men were to UPS use In n a fight against the English nM and yet et to bo be prohibited from soilIng seizing the men who were wom to car carry carry ry the tho guns would appear to be n a ono one sided 1 or distorted construction of inter international national law Jut But when the or of Is presented time the matter en enters tore Into a new phase Boston Doston Transcript In Ia no case cose can our government or orthe time the government afford to have flour Ilour hound bound to it a neutral port held eon con conI I It Is III certain Great lint am cannot afford to take Ih that t position In the long tung run Nor or can she elms afford to arouse the resentment or suspicion of tIme the American nation If she attempts practice lIh rosPe respect t to Delagoa bay there are other to reckon with must not carr too high n a hand especially towards the United States for tor cordial as Is the sen sentiment towards toward h her r It is 18 not ro rockbound and It can caD easily bo be disturbed It if not reversed Certainly we haf a right night to put lut a sory ory strong Interrogation poInt against tim r nt acts and amid call all for fora a bill 1111 of and If III as reported she to patrol the waters ot of our coast that too is III n a matter that Will demund explanation Chicago Record Originally articles wet were those thole actually to be used in III infighting fighting However modern usage has enlarged the scope ot of the han ban until it l is faIrly won well accepted 1 that thal distinctly mil military supplies be construed to be contraband Time foodstuffs designed for time the ba t people of n a countr country that Is at war are not generally accepted as contraband Foodstuffs that are arc designed d for the garrison and of a beleaguered city 1111 have much of the contraband aspect This Is the tact when there Is mm a distinctive effort to reduce time the belong force by depriving It of 01 its tOOt too At t the caine time lime It may be said that stores which b by their nature are desIgned for n a military supply station illation are fairly to be Jn ld ered munitions o of war Omaha The seizure J uro b by time British of several ships I loaded with provisions Off mm the ground that the they carried property ot of war TAr line has revived Inter Interest interest est is III l the Gen Oen oral Iral F Butler is III for the terni and lie be originated and uH used l It In 1561 When the cIvil war broke blOke out Butler was us n a brigadier gen of 01 militia In his brigade In Included iud the famous rufous In and regiment diu not so go with the Sixth and andt t was not nit In the 11 He went mit at the head hend ot of the Eighth lie wac made mado a major general V V V I i of volunteers In Mn May and assigned to the command ot of Fortress An order was Is issued commanding the tho re return return turn of nil all slaves to theIr monsters masters and the promulgation of this artier resulted in III time tho famous expression sion muon or of war Butler reo re refused fused to return the runaway slaves who came within lila his lines declarIng them to be property contraband ot of war ivar The term contraband was wall commonly applied to Slaves during the rest relt ot of the war Worce Worcester Gazette German papers announce that time the foreign office ciRce has the man managing managing aging dIrector ot of the German East Af African rican line Herr to Berlin In connection with the tho sel seizure ure ot of the tha steamer teamer by the tho British cruiser Dec 29 on Delagoa Bay on the ground that sue she had contraband or of war on board Strict silences silence Is l In official circles at Berlin regarding the tho Incident but time the correspondent of the Associated Iress I learns that the affair has hIlS created an paInful Impression In po pa cIrcles diplomatic steps were Immediately taken In Lon Len London Lendon don and the of the rl ht of a British cruiser to searCh n a German mall steamer on the high seas hM has been emphatically asserted The govern government mont ment Is waiting response be ture fure action San Francisco Chronicle There Is not likely therefore to be beany beany any serious direct trouble to Great Britain from either r ot of these seizures She Imas hns to fear from that which mu may IndIrectly grow out of them An n states the CAse clearly regarding time effect of cf the flour seizures when h says England Is between Scylla and If wo we declare foodstuffs contraband WI we put ourselves In n a most awkward position should w we webe be I a neutral power In some Borne future futuro war Dut ns as was 18 once before shown In the Chronicle Engl England nd has ben been alreadY on both sides of the fence re me garding foodstuffs In her war with France at the beginning of the century she held foodstuffs destined for French ports as contraband but In time the Franco ChInese Chines war ar held that they were not contraband |