Show E. E J tAND PENS NOTE ON DEBTS i SENT TO ti U Sa British Reply to 1 Statements Causes Surprise Lo LONDON mON May Y 1 By The As- As lr Fuli s.-I s. ull exposition of the British viewpoint as re- re regards gards the war debts Is believed to 10 be contained In a a. len lengthy thy Brit BrIt- BrItish Ish note which has been dis patched to the United States and publication of oC which Is set for tomorrow morning News that the note hall had been sent caused surprise In London Lonton as there was no Intimation of its Iti existence wort word was as received I that Sir Esme Howard British delivered It to 10 the American merl n state The note Is understood to be bethe bethe the outcome of the tho controversy over the war debt between the American secretary or of the tress tress- treasury ury AndreW y V. V Mellon and the British chancellor of the ex- ex l d Winston Churchill It s Is thought to be In the na lure ture of at a reply to Secretary Mel Mel- Mellons Mellon's ions lons viewpoint that Great aln am Is receiving more from her he continental war debtors than she sh is payIng annually to the United Unite States under the Washington debt deb agreement Recently numbers of letters letter have appeared earell In the British Britis newspapers challenging Mr Ir Mel Iel ions lons misrepresentations Secretary Note Mellon In a aletter letter to Dr John Grier Hibben president ot of Princeton universIty made public March 16 saM saId Great Britain's schedule ot of front her debtors called for tor a substantial amount more than she would have ha to pay on her Atner- Atner AmerIcan lean Ican debt It Is true he saId that inthe In Inthe the past two years ears Great Britain has received recel from Germany German France and Hal Italy about less than she h has paid to the United States but It Is equally true truo that front this ear on Great Britain every year ear will receive from her debtors a substantial amount moro more than she sho will pay to us Ul so that her American pay lay payments ments will not constitute a drain upon her own economic ro- ro sources It was wa true also he added that Great Grat Britain had agreed not to accept more from her debtors than the sums which when added to the tho r p payments from Germany German would equal those which she sho pays paya to the United II even taking this Into consideration It was obviously In- In Inaccurate Inaccurate accurate to say ay that the debt agreements which the United States State had made Imposed a a. tre- tre tremendous burden of taxation on friendly countries Secretary Mellons Mellon's letter was as In response to a statement by Dr HIbben and members of the Princeton faculty endorsing one wrItten HUten b by the faculty of political science of oC Columbia university reconsideration and revision of tho debt nUt cede lIh the former wa ar allies t the tho United States Statu |