Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-27
Communication Delivered Yes.
terday Not to Be Published
Pending Receipt.
is SUPPOSED TO BE OF
SUPPLEMENTAL NATURE
Development Will Further Delay
Dispatch of U. s. Note Regard
ing Orders in Council.

Lansing To-Day tndI the brltlSn govern
| ment has in preparation another note
| to the United States on the orders in
council and asked that the note de-
livered yesterday be withheld from
publication pending receipt of the new
communication. Therefore. yesterday s
note will not be published tomorrow
| morning. as had been planned.
No indication of the nature of the
forthcoming note was given in Sir Ed
wards cable and State Department Off
cials have no intimation. They assume,
however, that it is of a supplemental
nature.
Will Further Delay Note.
The development will further delay
dispatch of the American note to Great
Britain on the same subject. Secre-
tary Lansing had about finished it and
ii vas to be sent to President Wilson
at Cornish, n. H, for his approval. 1t
will not be dispatched until the new
British note has been received and con-
sidere!
Secretary Lansing said the message
from London stated the new note
would be here in another week.
Regarded as Significant.
In official quarters the development
was regarded as highly significant.
The belief prevailed that the last
American note to Germany, with it's
references to the freedom of the seas,
may have Influenced Great Britain to
place herself on record as willing to
take undeNconsideration any new sug-
gestions by the United States to the
belligerents.
Sir Edward Grey's request that the
note received yesterday be withheld
was taken to mean at all events that a
new situation had arisen or that some
new proposals were about to be made
by Great Britain to alleviate the ef-
fects of the order in council.
In view of the development Secretary
Lansing declined 20 discuss the British
note already in hand. but took occasion
| today TO deny reports that cotton was
about to be placed on the contraband
| list by Great, Britain. Mr.. Lansing de-
clared there had been no discussion
whatsoever between the State Depart
ment and the British embassy here or
the British foreign Office in London
relative to a change in the non-con-
rahand status of cotton.
With the sending of the note last
| week to Germany on submarine war
| ware the general impression given in
official quarters was that the protest
| to Great Britain would go forward
| within another week. The arrival of a
| new note from Sir Edward Grey, ar
guing at length in defense of the So
called blockade under the order in
council, has given the lawyers Of the
State Department additional phases Of
| the case for examination.
The note, which arrived from Am
bassador Page yesterday, does not, it
is understood, reveal any important
deviation in the argument already
made by Great Britain. but lays added
emphasis on the policy pursued by the
United States in the civil war as a
precedent justifying the British posi-
ton.
Cite Matamoros Case.
Legal experts of the government indi-
Gated that while the new British note
would require study, it does not. in
their opinion. affect the American posi-
| ton in insisting that non-contraband
goods destined to or from belligerent,
| through a neutral country. is not sub
ject to the rules of blockade.
In support of this the American gov
ernment stands on the famous Mata-
moros cases in the civil war. in which
the United States~Supreme Court ruled
that the -sontraband portion of a
cargo shipped from England to Mexico,
destined to Texas which was then
blockaded, must be releas sed. since a
blockade could not be legally operated
against a neutral coast