Show I I STRONGLY PROTEST I ACTION OF ALLIES SLUES I UNITED STATES WILL OBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS IMPOSED ON NEUTRAL COMMERCE British Action Has las No Precedent In InLaw InLaw Law or 01 History and of Administration Believe Vigorous Vigor Vigor- ous Protest potest Should be Made Washington Washington PresIdent President Wilson Indicated indicated In in- indicated to callers on Tuesday that a a strong protest would be made by th the United States government against th the action of Great Britain and her allie in subjecting neutral commerce to th numerous restrictions imposed on i iby it by the British British order In c council uncil jus just issued Senator Walsh of or Montana an authority authority au on International law and one oneo o of ot the administrations administration's spokesmen in i defense of the legal side of the ship ship shipp p purchase bill t length with the president Tuesday night about the I situation He had come to the White WhiteHouse WhiteHouse WhiteHouse House on another subject but found the situation produced by the commercial com corn mer mercial ial blockade uppermost in the presidents president's mind As he left the White House Senator Walsh said aId the British action hid no precedent in law or history and that tha an un unusually vigorous protest should be made against it He spoke of the general regret among senators n now now w that before the last congress adjourned adjourned ad ad- power had not been given to the president to declare an embargo I on on exports from the United States to the belligerents He added however he had bad no idea that the president would call any extra session for that tha purpose S Officials who studied the British order order or or- der In tn coun council il i in izi tie te text as transmitted transmitted trans trans- by Ambassador Page and the British embassy found differences in it from the version in the cable dispatches dispatches dis- dis dis- dis patches but would not Indicate whether they were of an important character Their displeasure at the contents of the order was evident and they made no effort to conceal their disappointment at its its its' failure to give Am American rican commerce relief from interference interference inter inter- ference while in transit to neutral S 7 countries |