Show WILL NOT CONS ER RIGHT BIGHTS af 0 F AL EFFORTS OF AMERICANS TO RAISE EMBARGO ON FOOD PROVES A FAILURE government had asked that radius of activity be defined and that attacks on merchant ships be abandoned WashIng washington toni six diplomatic notes were vero maile made public wednesday night by the state department constituting the entire correspondence of the tha last TOW ew weeks between the united states and germany and between the united states and great britain and france relative to the abandonment ol of submarine attacks on merchant ships the shipment ot of conditional contraband and foodstuffs to civilians in a belligerent country the use ot of neutral flags by belligerent merchantmen merchantman merchant men the removal ot of mines and the proclamation ot of a virtual blockade by the allies against germany the communications rever revealed aled that the united states government realizing the difficulties of 0 maintaining an aa effective blockade by a close guard ot of an am enemy coast on account of the now new ly developed activity of 0 submarines asked that a radius of activity be Jefin donned eq great janal france te plied with the announcement that t toe e operations or of the blockade would not be conducted outside of european waters including the mediterranean while germany agreed it Is disclosed to abandon her submarine tacks on mercantile ot of any flag except when they resist visit pr or search provided provid 0 d foodstuffs were permitted to reach her civilian population great britain and her allies rejected tho the proposal originally mado by the united states government in an effort to bring tho belligerents into an arrangement which would safeguard the interests of the neutrals furthermore the documents show that in a message of inquiry to great britain and france it was asked whether the tha embargo on all commerce between germany and neutral coun ciuni tries was to be ba carried out under the rules of a blockade or by interference with ships ahapa and cargoes as if no block ado existed the two together presented in the view af pf of tho the american government a proposed course of action previously unknown to international law tho the answers from both great britain and prance france reveal tor for the first time that tho the allies officially regard their V ir policy as a blockade but desire to retrain front from exercising tho rig rights of belligerents under a blockade i to 0 coull confiscate ships and cargoes as a pen ally tor for breach of 0 blockade substituting for or it procedure in prize courts and compensation through sale ot of the detained merchandise the definition ot of a radius of activity tor for the allied fleet in european waters including the mediterranean la is the first intimation ot ol the geographical limits of the blockade its limits were not given more exactly the allies claim because germany was equally indefinite in proclaiming all tho the waters surrounding great britain and ireland a war zone |