Show WAR AR HELPS AMERICAN TRADE BRITISH SAY WASHINGTON Dec 20 Further Further arguments arguments' and statistics in in support of Great denial that her merchants are profiting by British war restrictions upon commerce atthe atthe at atthe the expense of American trade have been submitted to the state department department department depart depart- i ment by the British embassy In a memorandum which was made mado public pub pub- 1 lie lic yesterday a lett letter r. r of transmittal trans- trans to to- Secretary Lansing from Sir str- Cecil Spring Rice the tho dor I IThe The memorandum which is is' supplementary supplementary sup sup- to a note on the same subject handed Ambassador Page last summer by the London foreign office reiterates the assertion that increases in British trade with neutral neu nen- countries have been Infinitesimal mal mat compared with the growth of similar American trade It draws particular attention to figures show show- ins in that the increase in exports from th the port of New York to the Scandinavian Scandinavian Scan Scan- countries during the first thirteen months months' of the war war exactly balanced the falling off of New NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's exports to Germany A report of the secretary of the treasury Is quoted to prove that prove that the war has Improved rather than injured injured injured in in- American commerce |