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Show Britain Makes Shipping Rule Statement Issued Pointing Out Way to Avoid Interference by Allied Warships Washington, May 3. Tho British ombnssy Issued n statement tonight for tho Information of American shipping ship-ping Intorosts, designed to fncllltnto trudo ot tho United States with neutral neu-tral countries by pointing out n wny to guard against Interference by nl-lied nl-lied warships with cargoes not under tho ban of, Great Britain's blockndo order In council. Tho toxt of tho statement in part follows: "Tho British embassy enn glvo no assuranios as to tho Immunity from visit and search or detention of any particular shipments; but with regard re-gard to consignments of noncontra band articles aB well as of articles of conditional contraband, they are authorized to stato thut In cases whero adequato Information Is furnished furn-ished by consignors to show thnt tho goods shipped are neutral properly and nro to bo used exclusively tor consumption In neutral countries or by tho allies, this will bo taken Into consideration by tho authorities charged with tho oxoeutlon ot tho order or-der In council. This will nlso apply to shipments of certain descriptions of goods listed as absoluto contraband. contra-band. Such goods nro, however, usually usu-ally subjoctcd to closer scrutiny nud control and In eomo cases to special arrangements. "It would greatly facllltato and ox-pedlato ox-pedlato tho work of clearing vessels bound to noutrnl ports for examination examina-tion of tholr papers, If shipping houses hous-es or tholr ngents would glvo British consular offltors n dupllcnto of tho final fi-nal manifest of tho vessel Immediately Immedi-ately on its doparturo for Europo, !n order thnt, If posslblo It may bo transmitted trans-mitted to tho British authorities In Loudon in tlmo for it to bo received and consldored beforo tho vessol nr rives. "To furthor nccolorato proceedings, manifests and bills of lading should dlsclnso tho exact naturo nf tho goods nnd whorovor It Is posslblo, tho nnmo and full business address ot tho ultimate, ulti-mate, conslgnoo, as well as tho nnmo and address ot tho consignor. "Shippers should avoid tho aiso a'. generic descriptions, such as hardware, hard-ware, dry saltorlos, machinery, etc., whlh aro tapablo of bolng employed to conconl tho real Identity of goods flussed as contraband. An oxnet definition de-finition ot tho specific character ot consignments will savo dolay In tholr examination," |