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Show CLAIMS RIGHT TO SIJUR SHIPS GERMANY REJECTS POINTS URGED URG-ED BY UNITED STATES IN WILLIAM P. FRYE CASE. Interprets the Prussian-American Treaty of 1828 to Mean That AmericanVessels Carrying Con-taband' Con-taband' Can be Destroyed. Washington. Germany in a note on the William P. Frye, an American ship sunk by the Prinz Eitel Fried-rich, Fried-rich, has informed the United States that it interprets the Prussian-American treaty of 1828 to mean that American vessels carrying contraband can be destroyed. Payment is promised prom-ised for the destruction, but the right to destroy is asserted as a logical inference in-ference from the language of the treaty. In reiterating that she stands ready to pay damages for the losses to American citizens occasioned by the sinking of the Frye, Germany insists that a prize court must first pass on the legality of the capture of the vessel. ves-sel. The argument advanced by the United States that a prize court is unnecessary, since compensation is promised whenever there is a violation viola-tion of the treaty of 1828, is rejected. The liability for the sinking of the Frye is still admitted, but Germany contends the case was not "a violation" viola-tion" of the treaty. Just what the reply of the United States will be is not known definitely, definite-ly, but in official quarters it is considered con-sidered certain that the American government will not acquiesce in the new interpretation given the treaty by Germany. |