Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-09-18
|GLAND'S ACTS
 NEW
 1 MESSAGE STATES Iited States Accuses Great |pritain of Series Of l Aggressio11s.
h1,s0N AND LANSING REVIEW DOCUMENT
seape While Severe Arrafgnmeni, Said to Contain No Threat of rultiratum Nor Set Time Limit for Answer to Our Demands.

Washington. Sept. 17.-Presiden1
 lson and Secretary Lansing con-
 red at length today on the com
 eted note of this government te
 eat Britain, and on the phases ot
 e controversy with Germany over
 sinking of the Arabic.
 The points of the new note to
 eat Britain. as obtained from off,
 k who had part in putting it in-
 dsfnite form. are as follows:
 That as the United States has re- katedly and consistently denied spe-
 Really every one of the just,fica- bns set up by Sir Edward Grey
 e British minister for foreign af-
 irs, and Lord Cr.we, his assistant
 s government cannot fail to regard
 e persistent oppression of Ameri- ln commerce as unfriendiy.
 That Great Britain acted illegally hen she took cases of seizure and
 tantion out Of the domain of di' lofnacy and made them merely mat Frs for the British prize courts.
 That the argument by Great Britain br such action is indefensihle be ause 1t is based on the order ir opncil, which is itself all lllega cley.
 That the blish,nent of {. block )de under the order in council, which |retends to include neutral ports. is lot justified hy international law on be mere suspicion that neutral ports bay be made the bases for unneutral ets
 No American Pre- aedant.
 That the contention of Great Brit pin that cargoes may be seized a1d Detained On suspicion alone, without any assertion of reasonable proof, k untenab,e under any form pf the recognized law of nations. :: That Great Britain by asserting |that seizure end detention are mat |ters for local judicial settlement only mas practically excluded the state de' |partment from defending American citizens who gre aggrieved or op pressed by the operations of the or der in council.
 That the assertion by Great Britair ol an increase of trade between Hol land and the Scandinavian countries and the United States is neither pre- sumptlye nor actual proof of fraud al pal the%reason that the ports of thos U9untrles have been cut off, iron ,4elr normal trade with g large mum , Tr or ports with which they di, ?usness before the war; |. :, mat it is not true that the Unite, o.sns, has eyer adopted a policy 0 sselzlng contraband without reasona Ole proof, and that Great Britain can . uol justify her acts with regards t @s a recent seizure of the goods of tn paskers on American precedenc tuner near or remote. mat the United States has hereto .ure gwen Great Britain notice ~ suuid not tolerate acts such as i, ss KY packers cases, which were base ya ~ tne' illegal withdrawal of uues " suas or seizure and detention fror us category of diplomatic questions z, n, 'eerman Crisis Lessenine. ,., me United States has in fact file notice. ''"" U ,,u n IS stated there is in the note n ,,sssestlon of an ultimatum nor an mlnd for definite answer fro, time. " "i'ii'n any speclne v,,, !, IS not revealed whether the not +. Ha' go forward at once or .whethe nH. rS transmission will bs depender m.n vu the progress made with Gel ay sa on the Arabic controversy. ths. some q, of the officials said toda sts.. st tae mere fact that the Unite tion a'cs N nas taken up the British que. dsn, M vigorously shows that the pres raaa .. ana Secretary Lansing probab1 ins isasa the German question as neal I ths favorable ending. in line wit ssSop S prediction of the German aniba,
 Ot' Count von Bernstorf. ia5.
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