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Show ALLIES UNITED IN REPRISAL MEASURE i AUSTRIA PROPOSES TO FOLLOW EXAMPLE OF HER ALLY AND WAR ON MERCHANT SHIPS. Premier Asquith Announces That Retaliatory Re-taliatory Plan of Great Britain is a Matter for Consideration of all the Allies. London. The wasp of modern warfare, war-fare, the submarine, 'by means of which Germany has declared she will blockade the British isles, daily becomes be-comes a factor of more and more importance in the great war of Europe with respect to its influence on the policies of the nations engaged in connection with the contraband question, ques-tion, so vital to neutral states. Almost coincident with tne official reports that Austria proposes to fol- low the example of her ally -by niak-j niak-j ing war on merchant ships in the Adriatic, came the announcement by j Premier Asquith in the British house . of commons on Monday that the much I discussed retaliatory plan of Great : Britain, though still tentative, was , much broader in scope than had been previously suggested, in that it was ' a matter for the consideration of. all j the allies and that a joint note con-i con-i earning it might be expected from the . allies. The statement was likewise made in the house of commons that the British government might deem it necessary to alter its decision whereby where-by cotton, tip to the present, has not been classed as contraband. |