The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1915-08-04
GREY ASKS FOR MORE TINE;
ENGLAND TO SEND NEW NOTE
Wires American State Department to
Withhold Note Sent Out
on Monday.

A request was made Tuesday by Sir
Edward Grey, British minister for
foreign affairs, that the state depart
ment withhold from publication, as
originally planned, the text Of Mon
days British reply to the American
protest against the British order in
council caused much speculation in
official circles. No explanation was
made except that another note on the
subject was promised from London
within week.
Secretary Lansing declined to ad-
vance any theory for the supplement-
ing Of the first communication. An
American note, now in preparation,
will be delayed until the supplement
tary document is received.
Officials at first supposed that
statements in tho las American note
to Germany, which stated the purpose
Of the United States to maintain the
freedom of the seas, might have in
fluenced the British foreign office to
deal with that subject in the same
note which defends the order in coun-
Gil.
From British sources, however, it
was learned that the main purpose in
asking the postponement Of publica-
ton was to give the British govern
ment opportunity to consider the
communication cabled from Washing
ton July II on cases before prize
courts. -.
This caveat recited that the Ameri-
can government; would insist on the
recognition of the rights of <Ameri-
can citizens under the principles of
international law governing neutral
trade in time Of war without limita-
ton or impairment by orders in coun-
Gil or restraints imposed by British
municipal law.
The British note delivered Monday
is understood to be framed on the
theory that the order in council does
not transgress the right OF neutrals
as laid down in international law, al
though it is admitted that in some
respects the application of the legal
principle is new. In view Of the re-
cent objection by the United States
to the order in council the British
government is understood to feel that
this phase requires special treatment.
One feature of the British note is
understood to deal exhaustiVely with
the right of country t. blockade an
enemy through neutral ports. That
the United States, if in war with
European country outside of the Brit
ish Isles, never could successfully
maintain a blockade SO long as the
enemy country could receive unlimlt-
ed supplies across the borders OF an
adjacent country is regarded blythe
British as fact which should be con-
sidered in dealing with the effort to
shut off supplies being received by
Germany through Swedish, Danish
and Dutch ports.
The decision Of the United States
supreme court in the Matamoros
cases during the War Between the
Sections is held by Great Britain not
to apply to the present conditions.
because at that time, except at
Brownsville, there -as virtually no
way for supplies landed in Mexico to
reach the Confederate States over
land through Texas because of lack
of inland transportation facilities.
In case there should be an even
tuai disagreement as to Great Brit
aims right to detain vessels and car
goes under the order in council, Brit
ish officials point out that American
interests may be trusted safely to the
special international tribunal provid-
ed for in the arbitration treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain.