The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-29

Was UnWarranted = Bound
 to Make Preparation Under
 Treaty Terms Is U. s.
 Claim.
 Washington. June 2s-Publication of the text of the American note sent to Germany on June 24 with regard to the case of the American four masted ship William F. Frye, sunk by the Ger man auxiliary cruiser Prfnz Edtel Friedrich last January. disc1oses the. fact that the controversy has become <one regal ding the interpretation of the treaty Of 1928 between the United States and Prussia.
 Indirectly. by virtue of certain claims made by the German govern ment as to her r1ghtEto sink neutral vessels carrying contraband, the cor respondence also is coming to have bearing on the, issues involved in the submarine question.
 The note. made public here yester- day shows the United States for the second time taking exception to the German plan of having. the Frye case settled in prize court. The United States renews it's demand for the pay mant of fndemnitysj the amount of which ft asserts should ~be agreed up- on in direct negotiations between the H TVF9s E0VGTlIneI
 Against a Prize Court
 It is made clear in the note that the United States will have nothing to do with any prize court proceedings which the German government may institute in the Frye case.
 The stand Of the United States in this case rests wholly upon the pro-, visions Of the treaty of 1923, which as Gerrnany herself admitted in the
 
 rendered. her liable to pay an indemn- ity for the destruction Of the Frye.
 Germany having been the first to invoke this treaty as still in force and applying to this issue. the State De- partment is trying hold her. to the thus summed up by Secretary Lansing in his latest note:
 tsThe real question between the two Governments is what reparation must be made for a breach of treaty obIiga- tio1s, and that is not a question which ! falls within the jurisdfction of a prize court z 6
 1t is said further that the United States Government sfcannot recognize the propriety's of subnaitting the Frye claim to a German prize, court for set it1ement.
 The Snbtnar,tne Questiens
 Secretary Lansing also dfssents
  ward by c GernanY in the note to which his munieation is q reply, to the erect that the treaty of 1928 gives eitI party the right to destroy a vessel belonging 46 the other party when carrying oontraband. if it is not practicable to stop the contraband in any other way. s
 This is the contention which has been regarded here as bearing upon Germanys submarine operations It is believed here that the German Government is seeking to have the prize court review the provisions of the treaty of 1928 in the hope of get ting a court decision which will strengthen her position in regard to the destruction by submarines of neu- traI ships carrying lconkraband. Re- plying to this contention MT. Lansing says. ss
 tsEae 1overn rnInent of ss the United States cannot conel1r in this concll1- sion. On the contrary it holds that these treaty provisions do not author ize the destr ruction of a neutral yes se1 in any circumstances By it's e1k- press terms the treaty prohibits even the detention of a neutral vessel car rying contraband if the master of the vessel is willing. to surrender the con trabar1d. '' s7sss