Show PROTEST T n u BEAT 8 PRESIDENT 1 ENCE WITH MAILS MUST CEASE AT ONCE take takes position that practice practices corn com plain tc of in first note have beyn bein continued and insists that they cease washington president dint wilson has completed a note vigorously ret renewing ewing tho the protest of the united states to grat britain against interference with american malle secretary lansing and legal expert experts at the state department made the original draft of at the note and the preal i dent revised its pl phraseology rase it la Is made up largely of legal argument arguments to meet the contentions of great britain in the memorandum concurred in by france presented to the auito department several weeks ago the united states the position that practices complained of in lie its first note on the subject have been continued and that the american government must now inset more emphatically that they cease state department officials consider that the chief weakness in tho the position ot of great britain is her policy ol 01 taking neutral mall vessels teasels into british jurisdiction and submitting them to local censorship regulations it ia I 1 understood that if it is on this point that the renewed protus is chiego beed the british avoided this phase of tho the ques queston qu eslon lion rapid transmission was promised to true correspondence spon dence but th the a right to seize contraband aunt sont in tho the malls was maintained tho the hague convention of 1907 the united states contends guarantees tho the inviolability of postal correspond ence and the new note again points to tho the inconvenience and actual money loss lose resulting from the continuance of tho the british policy of taking neutral mall vessels into british ports and there examining and detaining the malls A mafia mass of at evidence has been collected showing the effects on american business of the british policy |