The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-08-07
NOTES TO GERMANY
and BRITAIN 10 SOON
FRYE Case Reply Already
Drafted: That to England
Is Being Prepared.
r. $. TO YIELD NOTHING

N,sutSGroN, Aug. e-In the Interval
ma, IL 10 elaspe bdore Il third Pam
american conference on the Mexican
d,uation is held. the attention OF the
,,,,e Department will be concentrated
,nce NOR, on several problems grow
20 out of the controversy with the
r1ropean belligerents. These matters
ave necessarily been pushed to one
IA. in this last few days as a result
n the Mexican deliberations.
Two matters of greatest importance
re the replies to the German note in
. he Frye case and the several British
votes defending the intcrferences with
american trade with neutral countries.
rhe reply OF the United States In the
FIVE case has been drafted and prob
,bly will be submitted to the President
y a day or two. No note to Great
Britain has yet been drafted. but 80
much preliminary work has been done
m that subject that little delay is ex-
Ncted.
II is likely that the Administration will
axe full advantage of the opportunity
Afforded by the British reference to
;ermany's conduct as justifying what
England Is doing. Language quite SINH
mr. to that used in the notes TO Ger
many informing her that the United
states could not admit into its con-
roversy with Germany n OF Ger
nsny's complaints against Great Britain
,robably will be found In the note to
Great Britain.
Press Advantage Against Britain.
Aside from the legal aspect OF the
,~,uatIon. officials here are delighted at
ne opportunity TO mollify those who feel
nat the United States has been giving
Germany alone the rough edge OF its
,ongne. officials are considering the
possibility of pressing this advantage
nil further in the reply to Great Brit
lin. BY some II is felt that the United
sates would be justified In declaring
hat Great Britain, in admitting that
her blockade Is n retaliation for the
submarine operations OF Germany, has
acknowledged by Implication that the
blockade If a reprisal and therefore be-
ond the law.
BY others the opinion Is held that
Breat Britain was clever enough in writ
rg her note to stop just short of actu-
lily admitting that her blockade meas
Tres are to be viewed as a reprisal. On
he other hand, II Is asserted that while
his may he true, technically. as a matter
" fact the British have sought to JUS
A. Z bAoN nah'N &C ~
,Nrtlng them as a necessary retaliation
against the illegal and irshuman prac.
ices OF Germany and should be called to
account accordingly.
As the British note is being studied
bther points TO be raised in contraven-
lion Of the British argument are being
developed. 1t Is now certain that the
American reply will concede practically
nothing of the British argument. and
that IL will evade the deadly parallel
81 the American civil wal cases by main
tanning that the conclusions along this
line. drawn by the British really are
not justified by the facts In the two stu
atoms.
LondOn's View Rejected.
Great Britain will be charged with
trying TO nullify circumstances due to
Inc physical fac. of geography. h
United States will contend hat 1t cannot
accept this view that the rules of block
ade or the application OF them an be
altered to tit the geographical facts of a
particular situation.
The suggestion has been made that the
logical step for the United States Is to
concede the British contention that a
blockade OF Germany would be inef-
iec,ive unless trade through neutrals Is
Srutinized. and then to declare that the
proper conclusion from this fact Is that
the blockade should be abandoned rather
than that the rules o. a blockade should
be changed 10 suit the situation. The
difficulty raised against the taking of
this ground by the United States is that
The United states itself might very
likely wish to impose a blockade some
day and. therefore. had best not take a
stand in favor of the abolition of the
right of blockade.