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Show mm protest TO GREATJIl PRESIDENT DECLARES INTERp-ENCE INTERp-ENCE WITH MAILS MUSt' CEASE AT ONCE. Takes Position That Practices c.c plained of in First Note Havt Been Continued and Insists That They Cease. Washington. President Yiison completed a note vigorously rent-'-! the protest of the United Sta's-'v Great Britain against interfere'.-'! with American mails. ": Secretary Lansing and legal eip,-at eip,-at the state department made the o-- inal draft of the note and the pv! dent revised its phraseology. It is made up largely of legal abluents ab-luents to meet the contentions' V' Great Britain in the memorr.r' concurred in by France, preserved" the state department several ....' ago. The United States takes tie y, sition that practices complained of -its first note on the subject have continued and that the American ernment must now insist more phatically that they cease. State department officials cons:-that cons:-that the chief weakness in the p.-.. tion of Great Britain is her policy o' taking neutral mail vessels into E:-. ish jurisdiction and submitting fr-to fr-to local censorship regulations. It understood that it is on this point t;, the renewed protest is chiefly h The British memorandum avoided i . phase of the question. Rapid tr;-; mission was promised to "true correspondence," corre-spondence," but the right to seize cc. traband sent in the mails was tained. The Hague convention of 19 T, ;;. United States contends, guaran:--the inviolability of postal corre;;::: ence and the new note again points i: the inconvenience and actual m::-: loss resulting from the continuance:: the British policy of taking nesrr. mail vessels into British ports a:: there examining and detaining U: mails. A mass of evidence has t-:: collected showing the effects on kz-: ican business of the British policy. |