The Hawaiian gazette., 1915-03-02
British and French ENJOYS at
Washington Jointly Inform
State Department Of Decision
Announced BY Mr.. Asqulth
AMERICAN OFFICIALS III
STUDY COMPLICATIONS
President Wilson Is Expected
to Make Prompt inquiry as to
How Proposed Absolute En-
barge Is To Be Carried Out

Associated Press by Federal Wireless)
wv AsHINGToN, March 2.--oon-
wv temporaneousiy with an an
norncement Of the decision Of the
Allies to put into effect an absolute
blockade Of the coast Of Germany and
her allies, made by Premier Asquith
before the British house Of commons
yesterday, came joint note to the
state department from Sir Arthur
Spring Rice, the British ambassador,
and M. Jean J. Jusserand, the French
ambassador, formally notifying tho
American government Of the step which
had been agreed upon, step which az
fects the United States intimately.
The joint note states, in effect that
the Allies have determined 70 shut on
all shipping to and from Germany. Aus
tria and Turkey. "a s.
x GERMANY LOCKED IN
The elaboration OF the new stand o.
t1e AIliss was given An tps 8rilish
parliament by Premier Asauith bis
speech being cabled in full and studied
carefully by the American oficials.
Asquith states that Germany has driven
the Allies into this form Of retaliation,
and that henceforth, during the course
Of hostilities, no supplies Of any kind.
from any source, are TO be allowed to
onter Germany through waters con-
trolled by the fleets Of Great britain
or France, while all German export
trade through the same waters is to
be prevented. =
Heretofore our efforts to prevent
the entry Of contraband into the ports
Of the enemy have been strangled In
a network Of judicial niceties,,' said
the British Premier, who declared that
from the present there will have TO be
no fine lines drawn regarding German
shipments, az no shipments whatever
are to be allowed TO pass the British
and French naval cordons. r.. b,
WILL ooNFIscATE GOODS
I'VE do not intend to connscate do.
tanned ships or their cargoes,', he said.
unless these cargoes are Of such .
nature as to render them liable TO con.
fscation under ordinary circumstances,
but we viii capture goods, whatever
their nature, whenever the presumption
is that they are destined to reach our
enemies or whenever they are from our
enemies" 80, .r&
The joint note to the state depart.
ment follows the general lines deal,
with by Premier Asquith in his speech
and it is admitted here by the state
department oficials that this now phase
Of the situation offers the most compiler
problem Of the war to date. The STATE
department is inclined to view the situ
alton as presenting something more 80
4 rious than mere question Of blockade
PROMPT INQUIRY EXPECTED
" It is regarded here as certain thai
: there will be prompt inquiry from
America upon London and Paris as II
how the proposed absolute blockade &
to be carried out, while there will ais,
be, undoubtedly, formal protes
against the announcement that all trad
: between neutrals and Germany is TO b
r interrupted by the armed forces of tn
a Allies.
o onicials here arc inquisitive as +
the disposition proposed by the Britisl
and French Of whatever cargoes the,
may capture consisting OF goods no
= heretofore considered contraband. Thi
- question was only limited at in Premis
y NAsquith's speech, has words being cor
% stfNed into meaning that the Allies Pre-
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