Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-11-05


sion IN itself would Justify the tse,
ance by the federal gorernm.r, 7,
laws providing for an embarro
II the impression is correct that o..
government Of the United States ,...,
es to express the opinion thst t
government Of a bellgerent pove,
not entitled 20 take up a matter wbiss
is connected with the perseryation :.
the application Of a right Of a noa,-,,
power. this is evidently due 10 the c.1,
that the Washington cabinet has my
sihly given too restricted fptorrr.
tation 10 the last paragraph rarerros
to when IL understood it to apply orh.
TO strictly private rights. the presar,,.
+ ton Of which the imperial and ro..,
government naturally holds 10 ho
matter that concerns tho nan,,.,
power only As is shown hv tbe y
port submitted by the French ao,1
gate NJ Renault. to the fun sitting n
The Hague conference concerning ~.
! thirteenth convention 6Deuxieme Co,e
Intern. de Ia PaiX. actes ct doe TOM,
/ l., =. $3.50, the said paragraph aim.
az the preservation Of the neutralit,.
ia helligerent can therefore not be ae-
MED the right to approach peutrsl
country and to invoke the clause r.
ferred TO when the suestiop Of ira
preservation Of the rights Of a neutral
power has a bearing on the rights of
that belligerent
The imperial and royal government
has followed with great interest the
arguments Of the federal government
setting forth the reasons which. I'm
the opinion of the Washington cabf
net make it impossible to restrict
during the present war the exporta-
ton Of munitions. The imperial and
royal government nevertheless stn
hopes that the federal government
will agree that the reasons given.
which have a purely practical char
acter can in no way Influence the le-
gal aspect Of the question, while ex-
pressing this hope we Ou0t venture
70 investigate whether the very fact
that the manufacture Of war mate
rails in the United States could de-
velop TO such extraordinary dimeu-
sions does not rather lead 10 the con-
clusion that the United States, dis
posing as they do in an unlimited way
of all the essentiag conditions for
manufacturing munitions, such as la-
Dor, natural products and financial
capital would be reduced to procure
war material from abroad in the event
Of war which would naturally slim
ulate the energy OF its citizens
The imperial and royal government
begs leave to make the following re-
marks:
Among the precedcnts invoked by
the Washington government, which
as has already been mentioned, can
not be accepted as such, the federal
government lays stress on the condi-
lions existing al the time Of the Boer
war, during which one Of the belig-
erents was cut off from international
trade i'm a way similar to that created
during the present war. Such an an
alogy cannot possibly be detected, be-
cause Great Britain did not then de-
cree stoppage of trade comparable
with the unlawful measures now TAX
en- by the London cabinets the pre-
yention Of the supply Of arms and ann
munition referred to by the federal
government does certainly not amount
to a commercial isolation.
Besides. the expectation of NUM-
tions of war from Austria-Hungafy
during the Boer war, just as during
other wars, whenever such an eX-
portation took place, never exceeded
the limits of permissibility
The federal government undoubl-
edly will have learned that Herr Elm
icke has publicly protested against
the Interpretation Of one sentence
taken from his treatise on neutrality
in naval warfare fo rthe purpose Of
justifying the duty of the Washington
this inyaldates the rel
erence made by the Washington eaDl-s
net to German jurists and the eonclq-
sions deducted therefrom Further
more the imperial and royal govern.
ment naturally holds that q nautr''
cannot issue an emDalko
with the intention Of ieopardizInE inv
interests Of one of the belIlSeren'S
Just as naturally an embargo issueu
By the government for the purpose oil
its neutrality could never
be described as a measure taken WIZ"
the intent Of injuring one Of the oe''
Iigerents.
The references made by the lmpel
ial and royal government 70 ine p'o,
of supplying mcn-oi'WaI' auD
to the prohibition OF making c'l'a'1
to men of-war, was not aliilu'
II concrete case: it was simply ="
tended to quote the prohibitions en-
bodied in articles s. 10 and ~ OF '1'
XIIIth convention Of The Hague
The undersigned has the honor y
request his exeellency the AmeFlVa"
ambassador to convey by wire TO llN
cabinet the above irlenpe
which arc SUI
made in order to complete the QUINN
Of the legal status defined In the IVY
Of June 20 after a careful exam as.
nation Of the views expressed III n"
tote of the federal government
avails himself Of thls w
Dortunity To renew to his eXcell'N.
he American ambassador the 9s54
ince of his most distinguished co"'''
,ration