The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-04-10
HELPING ALLIES. GERMANS CHARGE.
 TO STATE DEPT.
Berlin Holds That U., s Shows Favoritism Tn
 Neutrality Stand

Washington, April 10.-Germany has sent to the United States govern nent note nplaining that the United States has accom- pIished noth- ing in it's diplomatic correspondence with the allies to obtain for American exporters the right to ship foodstuffs to the civilian population of a. bellig erent country
 The communication intinaates also Nthat the United States has virtually acquiesced in the British order ill council prohibiting commerce with Germany.
 In view of these considerations, the German government then calls atten. ton to the fact that the allies dails are obtaining large shipments of arms and aammunition from dealers in the United States, and asserts the Amer ican government, although insistfng on dts legal right to ship arms to bel Hgerents, does, not with equal energy pursue it's right to ship foodstuffs and non-contraband articles to the civilian population of Germany
 Note Quotes wilson
 The note urges that irrespective Of the formal aspects of the question or. shipping arms to belligerents the spIr- lit of neutrality should be observed. In support of this contention, a quo tation is cited from President Vii son,s address to Congress on Mexican affairs in August. 1918, when he | said.
 sI shall follow the best practice of nations in the matter of neutrality. by l forbidding the exportation of arms or i munitions of arms or munitions of war of any ind from the United States tosany part of the Republic of Mex ico-A policy suggested by several in I terestinE precedents and certainly dic l tated by many manifest consid alterations l of practical expediency. We cannot | in the cfrcumsta1 ices be partiSans Of either party to the Scontest that now abstracts Mexico, war constitutes our selves the virtual umpire between them
 l Officials of the state departm ent have begun the preparation of re- ply, which will be fdeHverd soon to | Count von Bernstorff, the German am bassador here
 l The complaint that neutral coun tries had submitted to the influence I of the allies in connection with the right tp ship conditional contraband and foodstuffs to the civilian popu1a- tionA of a beIligerert has been made before by Germany in her diplomatic notes-this being, cited by the German 1 foreign office as one of the reasons l for pFocIaiming a submarine war zone l of the waters surrounding Great I Britain and Ireland.
 The United States denied in it's res I ply then that it had been silent of I the question, and called attention to it's diplomatic notes to Great Britain dea1ing with these. subjects,
 Will Defy Aiding Allies | It Is understood that the reply to the present complaint will deny wig l orously that this government has ac> 1 qu1esced in any way to the order-in- | council and probably will refer to the last note sent by the United States to
 Great Britain arguing fully it's oppo- I eftion to the viewpoint of the allies on the blockagesuuestion
 As for the utterances of the Presi-
 dent on the shipment of arms into 'l Mexico. officials here hold that the si Mexican situation Constitutes a special case, in no way comparable with the J relations. between the United States I ana the European beI1igerents. Oni-
 cia&s pointed out that the President l said in the same address to Congress;
 1T deem it by duty to exercise the
 authority conferred upon me by the
 law of March A, 1912. to see to il
 that neither side to the struggle now
 going on5in Mexico receive any assist ance from this side of the border
 President without Authority
 There is no law by which the Presi-
 dent of the United States, it was as serted, could exercise the same au:
 thority, even if he were desirous o1
 forbidding the exportations of arms tc
 all belligereIdts as to do Zso without
 authority from Congress would be un- constitutional.
 ! The viewpoint of the American gov
 ernment has been from the outse
 that it's position with respect to tne
 shipment of arms has been enforced irnpartiaIlly as to all beIligerents, and
 Secretary Bryan's 1efter to Senator
 Stone. chairman of the Senate foreigr
 relations committed, discussing this
 point contended that if the GermaniC
 allies were unable to enjoy the same
 advantage as to the delivery of arms into their country, it was due to tn, ] InayaI superiority of Great Britain ant not to any circumstances over whicl the United States has any control.
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