| Show WILL NOT ENDURE 0 MAILS UNITED STATES NOTIFIES F ENG NG LAND A AND ND FRANCE THAT LAWLESS PRACTICES MUST STOP in note ote couched in vigorous terms the entente powers are warned that only radical change will satisfy americans washington the united states danou denouncing dicing interference with neutral mails has notified great britain and nance france that it e can an no longer tolerate the wrongs which american c citizens have suf buffered feied and continue to suffer buffer through the lawless practice those governments have indulged in and that only a radical change chin geIn in policy restoring the united tates states to its full righta lights as a neut neutral ral power will be sat eat is factory this notification Is given in the latest american communication to the two iwo governments the text of 0 which was made public by the state department may 27 the time in which the change must be effected Is not sped bed but the united states expects prompt action onerous and vexatious abuses have been perpetrated bythe by the british an and d french governments in seizing and censoring peu neutral malls are recited ted in the communication and answers answer a are made to the legal arguments alflen ts contained in the reply oti of the eni entente ente governments go s to the fir first st american Affie rican note on the subject it ii Is vigorously set forth that not knot only american commer commercial clai interests have been injured but rights of property have been violated and the rules of international law lav and custom palpably disregarded notice la Is served that tha united unified State swill dosu soon press claims iiga against enst the British and french governments tor for the losses which already have been sustained the governments of the united I 1 states great britain and franco france appear to be in substantial agreement as to principle the note says the method of applying the principle Is theT chiet cause of f difference 1 the government 0 of f the united states mugi again insist emphasis a Is th that althe the british and french governments ern ments do not obtain rightful jurisdiction oc of ships by forcing or inducing them to visit their ports for the puri pose ot seizing their malls mails or thereby obtain greater belligerent rights as to such ships than they could exercise on th tha high seas tor for there ts is in tho the opinion ot bf the government of the united states no legal distinction between the seizures of malls at sea bea which Is announced as abandoned and their seizure from vessels vessel s volun tartly or involuntarily in port oi the british and french practice amounts to an unwarranted arr antea limitation of the use by neut neutrals rali of the worlds highway for the ahe transmission ot of correspondence apon spon dence after detailing instances ot of damage suffered liy by americans because of the detention of mails the note concludes as follows the government ot of the united states tates and other neutral countries and emp employed toyed by the british and french authorities in interrupting malls mails passing between the united mites and other neui neutral ra ii countries and between the united states and the enemies em lesof of great britain carino can no longer tolerate the wion wrongs 9 which citizen citizens ni of the united states auff suffer ir and continue to suffer through these methods to te submit to a a lawless practice of this character har Acter would open the door to repeated heated violations of international law b by y the belligerent powers on the ground of military necessity of which the violator would he be the sole bole judge manifestly a acu bial aral nation cannot permit its rights on the high seas to be determined by the belligerents or the exercise of those rights to be permitted or dented denied arbitrarily by the government of a warring nation the rights of bent neutrals rals are as sac sacred redas as the rights of the belligerents and must be as strictly observed the g government ot of the united states confident IT in the regard for international ter national law and the rights of neutrals which the Brit british ishan and A trench brench govern governments menti 1 ave ave so BO often proclaimed and the df disregard sigard of which they have urged so vigorously against theirs their enemies in the present war expects the present practice of the british and french authorities in the treatment ol of malls from froin orao or to the united states to cease and belligerent rights as exercised to conform to the principle governing ili the passage ge of mall mail matter and to t the e iop recognized iad practice of nations nation s only a ra radical cical cha change a age in the present british and french polly policy restoring to the united states its full rights as a neutral power will satisfy this government ern ment |
