Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-10-18 | Page 1 | Viscount Grey Scores America

VISCOUNT GREY SCORESAMERICA Washington in Querulous, Captious Mood Makes Demands De-mands Not Legally Tenable. BITTERLY ASSAIL ACTS Behavior Regarding Recent U-53 Incident Stirs Anger of British Lords. London, Oct. 18, 11:37 a. m. The statement of Viscount Grey, the foreign for-eign secretary, to the house of lords yesterday regarding operations of belligerent bel-ligerent warships off tho coast of the United States, caused a considerable stir, says the London correspondent of the Liverpool Post. "It has thrown a most disagreeablo light upon the attitude of the American Ameri-can government in the early stages of the war," the correspondent comments. com-ments. "Washington is shown In a querulous, captious mood, making demands de-mands which it admitted were not legally tenable. "The incident referred to Is now ancient history and might well be forgotten, for-gotten, but In view of the extraordinary extraordi-nary proceedings in connection with the TJ-53 incident are spoken very bitterly bit-terly of the behavior of tho American government The stories mentioned by Charles Beresford and Earl Grey seem to have some foundation, and if they are authentic the foreign secretary secre-tary should be pressed to demand an explanation. "We are awaiting some announcement announce-ment from tho administration in Washington after they have completed the inquiries which Viscount Grey as-sumes as-sumes they are making, but there is no evidence that any such Inquiries are in progress and tho general feeling feel-ing is that the matter will have to be pressed a little further."