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Show Mass of Material to Be Laid Before State Department on British Blacklist. New York. July 24. Merchants whose foreign trade has been handicapped handi-capped by Great Britain through the circulation of blacklists, said today that they were collecting a mass of material to lay before the state department de-partment to emphasize a formal protest, pro-test, and that their communication to the federal government probably would bo ready by the end of the week. By a comparison of experiences, made now for the 'first time, local exporters ex-porters say they are able to define the method by which the British government gov-ernment seeks to prevent citizens of te Teutonic empires from benefiting in any way from neutral trade. In their protest they will describe how, in order to do any export business1 with Great Britain, or her colonies. or allies, it was necessary to obtain ll from the foreign trade department of the British embassy at Washington i ' "a letter of assurance" which states "as far as is at present known there would appear to be no objection on il the part of the British government to this consignment." One exporter said that before he could obtain such a lll trade passport he wrote twenty let- ters and sent numerable telegrams co r the British embassy. ii |