Show RENEWS PH tesa TO GREAT N RESIDENT president DECLARES ENCE WITH MAILS MUST CEASE AT ONCE tales position that practices corn pl pla ined alried 0 of in firke note have been Contin continued tied anil and 1 I nelsis that thai they cease washington president dent wilson has completed a note vigorously renewing the protest of the united states to great britain against interference with american malls secretary lansing and legal leeal experts atthe at the state department imade mad 8 the original draft of the note and the president r revised its phraseology 1 11 Is s made up largely of legal arguments to meet the contentions of great britain in the memorandum concurred in by france presented to the state department several weeks ago the united stites states takes the position that practices complained of in its first note on the subject have been continued and that the american government must now insist more emphatically that they cease state department officials consider that the chief weakness in the position of great britain is her policy of taking neutral mall mail vessels into british jurisdiction and submitting them to local censorship regulations it la Is understood that it Is on this point that tho the renewed protest la is chiefly based the british memorandum avoided this phase of the question rapid transmission was promised to true correspondence spon dence but the right to io seize contraband sent inthe in the malls was maintained the 1 hague convention of 1907 the afie united states contends contend sj guarantees the inviolability of postal correspondence e no e and the new note again points to the inconvenience and actual money loss resulting from the continuance of the british policy of taking neutral mail vessels into british ports and there examining and detaining the malls mails A mass of evidence has been collected showing the effects anamer on american business of the british policy 1 I |