Show metts REJECT AUSTRIAN PROTEST TATE department CLAIMS RIGHT IGHT OF AMERICANS TO SHIP ammunition TO ALLIES reason a bad on international law a fr fc i re ire of t the he A answer answer being the caal C lal at germany sold england laurill i s during doer boer war washington the state department on august 15 gyo out tile ho text of this governments reply to the protest of austria ry against the shipment of arms and to the allies the note rejects all oi of Aus contentions the reasons given by the tha united states for its position are tho the principles of international law the practice ot of nations the national Y ot of the united states and other nations us without great abd n nil naval establishments tile tha prevention of 0 increased armies and navies the tha adoption of 0 peaceful methodic barths for tha adjustment of international ties and finally fah a ily neutrality itself tike the reply says that it neutrals ivera impelled to prevent sales bales to belligerents all nations would bo be obliged to I 1 have at all times sufficient niu munitions notions of war ivar to meet any emergency the united states has always depended anaed on tile the right and power to pur chase arms and ammunition from neur aral nations in case of foreign attack jn JIL consequence of its ita standi standing g policy tile lie united states would bays ys tile note in the pie event of attack by a for be at the outset of at tile the war seriously erous ly it not fatally embarrassed by the lack of arms arm armmand sand and ammunition anday and by mhd means to produce them in sufficient quantities to supply the ro I 1 ot of national defense one 0 of f the features of the reply la is lie the assertion that during the doer war ge germany irman r sold bold war supplies to great britain au and ld that austria hungary sold to the same purchaser though in smaller quantities the note recites that as great brit on had established a patrol of tile coasts coasto of adjacent neutral col colonies onles during that war the situation of the transvaal and tile the orange free state was almost identical with that in which austria hungary and germany alfid themselves at the present time the po point int la is made that it austria and germany had refused ta t sell arms ammunition to lo great britain at that time austria might with greater consistency and greater force urge it au present contention it Is 19 stated also that prussian manufacturers rs sold arnia arms to lusnia during the crimean war var and that germany sold bold arms to the tha turkish government in the lie recent war between turkey y ad italy |