Show ENGLAND 4 G LA LAAY h MA AY Y CUT COT CUTOFF OFF FF ALl sUrP LIES LIESt i IES IESE t Thorough E Blockade of r Enemy Ports to to Be Announced Is Belief in Lond London n Circles STUDY TUDY trUDY U. U S. S OPINION I. I Order in Council Op- Op Posed OS d in in Wash Washington in ton 1 May Be Set Aside and ando o Harsher Action Duer Due r LONDON Jal Jan 15 That That Great reat Britain will soon announce Ji Vie he establishment of an actual of Germany and her allies ther thereby by superseding the j which h had d been sl hed ed by the Q In iii co council councile i e. f nl i f d Y bY b by Y II americans who have been in ine l Ilse e contact with the machinery i.- i. the h British orders in council ih iii Ial eq e ce of their acting here her as of American shippers whose had been affected ted by on n of the orders person who can speak a vely v IY and nd who has has' acted as a a representative ve of American interests American interests in con con con- m tio with British prize court proceedings pro pro- i pro dings dingS reviewed today for th the Asso Asso- ted Press the evolution of the orders orders or or- ders ders in council He said Urge Actual Blockade The British gov government s1 shows t an air i unmistakable mistakable unmistakable tendency now to shirt shift I around to to the persistently express e American contention that the inter Intern t fk onal al law which prevailed before the the present resent war must ultimately govern Great Britain's assertion of lof her sea sea sea- pOwer power It is well known that wh when n the the war began the admiralty urged I upon upon the foreign office the necessity for the declaration of an actual blockade blockade block block- ade ade but the latter believed that the susceptibilities of neutrals could he be I better met by orders la in in co council and and- after atter the adoption of these the government gov gov- government emment began beg n- n nits Its interminable agre agree agreements ments menta with neutrals t These rhese agre agreements agreements agreements' might have sac sac- had it not been for been for the opposition tion ton of the United States which took the he fhe st st. stand nd from the first that the orders order I in n council were Illegal megal and that therefore therefore there there- fore even veiled or sub rosa recognition pf them in forms similar to the Danish agreement ment and the Netherlands overseas overseas overseas over over- seas trust would be a surrender of If Am American n sovereignty under international international law The smaller neutral states began to chafe under the agreements The compromise comPromis out of court by the British government with the Chicago packers is the best concrete evidence of th the modification of the orders In h council to meet the conceptions of international in int international in- in t law exl existing ting before the war British Plan to Fail Fad Great Britain Britain's attempts to substitute substitute t tute te a a. code of her own that would would- not dangerous precedents when she sheh h herself may be a neutral are doomed tP A fall fail n and I should not be surprised if Lice yie foreign office adopts the cour courso co p recommended by the admiralty and de declares declares delares de- de clares lares an actual blockade j. j How strictly an actual blockade his has been peen enforced is is' a a. subject of specula- specula r r- Continued on pa page e 2 ENGLAND MAY CUT Co Continued from page 1 1 tion There is no doubt in my mind that the recent heavy shipments tc te Denmark under the Danish agreement agree agree- merit ment had a tremendous effect in lowering low ering the price of or the German mark and there are ar many strong adherents both in and nd out of p parliament of or the policy of ot letting Germany Import anything anything any any- thing except actual contraband while keeping an ironclad barrier against her exports Even the British officials officials' admit that a a. declaration of or actual blockade wo would ld have strong backing In American American Ameri Amen can precedents which are now lacking for th the orders In council |