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Show BRITISH REFUSE L. S. REQUEST Steamer Dacia Will Not Be Allowed to Proceed to Rotterdam. Washington, Jan. 19 The British government will not consent to allow the steamer Dacia, recently transferred trans-ferred from German to American registry reg-istry to proceed to Rotterdam under safe conduct with her caigo of cotton, the state department was notified today to-day from London. The British reply to suggestions for a safe conduct, recently made by the state department, came through the American embassy at London While the text of the message was with held it is known the British objection was based broadly on a reluctance to create a precedent, which, It is felt, would be followed by many similar purchases of German ships In America and efforts to operate them on the former Germr.n trade routes The British note does not undertake under-take lo assert the right of Great Britain to interfere with ships purchased pur-chased and transferred lo the American Amer-ican flag In a legitimate way. The objection to the transfer of the Dacia, according to the British view, is that it was not genuine, it beinjr intimated the British government believes the Amerlctn purchaser really was acting Tor German principals. Cargo Not Subject to Seizure. The Dacla's cotton cargo, admittedly, admit-tedly, is not subject to seizure and the British note leaves it to be Inferred In-ferred that if the owners of the cotton cot-ton do not make other arrangements for its shipment to Germany and the Dacia puts to sea, the cotton either will be unloaded in an English port and placed at the disposal of the owners own-ers to forward to Germany by another an-other and neutral ship, or appropriated appropriat-ed by the British government upon payment to the owners of its invoice value. The state department already has informed Mr. Breltunp of Marquette, Mich, the owner of the ship, of the refusll of the British government to promise not to seize the Dacia on this particular trip. He has stated to the department that the freight charges upon the cotton wiih which he Dacia is loaded would about equal the purchase price of the vessel it is assumed he will take the chance of making the voyage and, if the ship Is seized, will go before a British prize court Statn department officials are of tho opinion that such a court would liberate the Dacia If tho British government gov-ernment is content as it says. It Is. to take it stand upon the genuine-1 ness of the transfer, In view of the evidence on that point which already has been submitted to the depart- W ment. Cutrlght's Objectionable Letter. Omaha, Jan. 19. The letter of Vice Consul John L. Outright to which the If Nottingham authorities took exception wus printed In the Omaha World-Her- aid, December 13, 1914. It was writ- j ten at Coburg, Germany, where Cut- 1 right was then vice consul and bears date of November 20. j "I am sorry to see the anti-German attitude of the American papers. To j me there never was a better example i of the way the American people love t to be duped than the way they are allowing the French and British re- I ports to fill their publications to the I detriment of the professed American jf policy of giving each side to a contrr- versy fair play and of sympathizing with the party that Is down. I "Just why American papers are so dead against Germany is hard to an- I derstand It is true she declared war. but she did 9o only with a con- fident feeling of Justification in the French invasion on the south and the unexcused Russian mobilization on I the north, they say. That the clr- J J cumstances w ere the same as if Eng- land should mobilize quietly along I the Canadian border without excuse, I . I I or Mexico with possibly envious eyes on Texas, which was once hers, Just as Alsace-Lorraine was for a short period French, should bubblt over the , Rio Grande. Yet the allies, they .- . f figure, with the apparent motive of b;. meeting the approval of the world, I were careful to see that It was Ger- jl many and not they who made the dec- I laration, although they were well on . in their preparation for war long he- foro the Kaiser Issued the roobillta- I.,- tion orders. I am firmly of the opln- jf", ion that Germany did not want war. ft , There Is not a German In Coburg, and I . I venture to saj In the whole empire. I. that does not detest the very thought r . of the war. She is simply defending ' '' her own borders, she says, and dis- claims anq intention whatever of f. pepping a particle of conquered ter- It ritorv Yet if we again can plic W-t anj credence in the German report liv here, the French papers long ago tljjtj appeared with maps of they way Ger- i'i? many was to be divided among -the K, allies. Necessary War Measure. -The Invasion of Belgian soli, Wfk lhat has caused such furore at home. was merely a necessary war meas-ure, meas-ure, which the Germans verily believe would havo been taken by the French g and with far less trouble, had she not H done so first . And if I VY p-aB judge from what little I have seen of jjj the German nation of the spirit or r;.l the dispassionate, self sacrifice or fc.vsj every person from Kaiser to peasant. and of that truly wonderful system or 1 mobilization . I ke 80 SS as to predict that within a year time the allies will have found the ward lord's army so replete with er-ficiencv er-ficiencv and so devoid of the human , lament of fallibility as to be in-eatst- ible and that within that time they Kg will be vers- well satisfied to accept EJ the terms of Germany, whatever they pjfjj he, and keep the peace for many years tn conic." |
