Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-19
Saturday, June 19, 1915.
NEW MENACE TO OUR SHIPPING.

NEW MENACE TO OUR SHIPPING.
 Long after supposed the status of the sail ing vessel William P Fry was definitely settled and the only thing left to determine was the amount Of money to be paid for sinking her. Germany makes the Frye the peg on which to hang new naval pol icy that may trouble In Herr von Jagows last note the subject German foreign secretary the right destroy any American ship that carrying contraband goods provided Germany pays the ship
 The purpose is obvious Germany is determined to stop sending supplies to the Allies, and Jagow has hit upon what he thinks is a legal method The vast orders on which American manufacturers working will have to be delivered to Europe somehow. So will grain surplus. Heretofore of such exports have in foreign vessels Ger many is trying, by of her submarine attacks to drive all merchant ships of the Allies from the sea- and particularly sink ships carrying contraband We expect that that effort will slacken She will have intelligence of every such shipment and her submarines will lie in wait She has legal right to destroy both goods and ships under enemy's flag, provided she respects the lives Of passengers and crews
 relentless pressing of that campaign would naturally drive contraband commerce to neutral ships In such cases while Germany would always have the right to condscate destroy the goodspaying for them where treaties obuge her do soshe would have right to destroy the ships being determined to deprive her foes Of the conraband any and finding that the easiest way submarine operations is simply send the cargo and ship to the bottom together Germany simply decides to sink at her own expense every American shp-and possibly every other neutral shp-that hap pens be carrying suspected of carrying, sup plies.
 
 enton fer the diplomats of Berlin and Washington the main points
 The authority invoked by Germany is the old treaty between the United States and Prussia made in l7ss It was on this document and later treaty incorporating many of provisions that Germany based her consent to pay for the Frye when we demanded payment. President Wilson naturally thereupon that Ger many admitted having broken the treaty Von Jagow, however. now declares that Germany admits such thing-that under the treaty she had right to destroy it, if she paid the damages
 "These treaties" says the Berlin foreign secretary did not have the deprivng of the con tractng parties engaged in Gin this instance Ger many) of the right stopping the supply of contraband 10 his enemy when he recognizes the supply Of such as detrimental his military interests" And since the party at war is explicitly the right to detaln con traband he argues that If be accomplished in any other way the stopping of the supply in the ex treme case be effected by the destruction of the contra band and of the ship carrying it."
 Article XIII of the treaty Of 1799 on which he bases this claim says
 I shall be lawful to stop such vessels and articles Cshps carrying military suppies) and to detain then for such length of time as the capors think neces ary to prevent the convenience damage that might ensue from their proceeding paying however, reason able compensation for the loss such arrest shall occa sion the propnetors and it shall further be allowed t' use in he service of the captors the whole any par Of he military detained paying the owners th ull value of the same"
 There is nothing said about sinking the ship. Th only possibility suggested is detention, which Herr vol Jagow stretches to make it mean destruction"
 is even provided further that 'f the master of th vessel stopped will deliver the goods supposed to b contraband nature he shall be admitted to do it, an the shall in that be carried into port detained but snail be allowed to proceed o her voyage"
 To layman, b looks if Capt ThiercheRs O the PHnz Ehe Friedrich broke that clause of the treat