New Britain herald., 1915-06-25
ATTAIN FAILS. TO ANSWER
 PRINCIPLES OF U. s. NOTE
gand in MemOrandur to Wilson Tells of Concessions Made to American Shippers Trying
 ElHMla to Aid Neutrals 1iMSN s

to confiscate ships or cargoes, which
 be1ligerents had always previously claimed in respect to brooches of blockade; that, under Article 5 CD of
 the enactment of the eleventh of
 March, it was expressly provided that
 any person claiming to be interested
 in goods placed in the prize court in pursuance of the provision of that en- actment, might forthwith issue writ against the proper officer of the
 crown, the. object being to confer upon claimants the right to institute pro- l ceedings without waiting for the writ i of the procurator general, and thus to remove all principal cause of le- 1 gitimate grievances on account of de- i lay, and that, finally, 8 pacific as- ! surance was given to the United 1 States government that the instruc- | tions to be issued by his majesty's 1 government to the fleet, and to the 1 customs officials and executive off, i cials concerned, would impress. upon them the duty of acting with the ut- most dispatch consistent with the ob. ject in view, and of showing in every case such consideration for neutrals l as might be, compatible with that ob- 1 ject, namely, to prevent vessels carry ling goods for, or coming from the enemy's territory.
 To Alleviate Burdens.
 '3-The above measures were all designed to alleviate the burdens i'm ! posed upon neutral sea-borne com merce int general. Various special concessions over and above those enumerated, have. moreover been made in favor of United States citi- zens.
 Thus his majesty's govern ment have acted as regards shipments of American cotton in accordance with the provisions of an arrange ment arrived at in. direct collaboration with representative of American cot ton interests. Tn accepting this scheme, the principal representative of those interests described 1t as con 5ceding all that AmericaA interests could properly ask. s:rhA provisions of the &arrangemei1o United States ambassadors 4S@ 1Mare, as fol- lows: s. (1)-All cotton for which coll- tracts Of sale and freight engage ments have already been made bu- fore the End of March is to be al- lowed free Cor bought at contract price if stoppedo provided the shil, sails not later than the thirty first of March. asa
 e Similar treatment is to be accorded to all cotton insured before ] the 2nd of March, provided it is put on board not later than the 18th of ! 5sSy 5sS.'s ss,-ati Afiipmehts .of cotton l F.frjt, saI ,o Hf.fio he declared before sailing and docu- i nlents produced to, and certificates obtained from, consular officers CT ether authority fixed by the govern ment.
 .(5) )1Considerable shipments of cotton have already been dealt with under this arrangement, and in cer- tain cases the dates specified have been extended in favor of American shippers. The board of trade have already paid a sum exceeding f50,- stOO pounds sterling to various Amer ican claimants, and all claims are being and will be continued to be paid as rapidly as they are presented and the proofs of title can be checked. If Tn some cases progress has been delayed, this has been due to the fact which has seriously embarrassed his raajestyss government-that a num- Der of consgnments for which the American shippers had specifically in- voked the protection of the arrange ment, are now claimed by Swedish and Dutch firms, whose title of own1 ership, notwithstanding the action of the American shippers appears in scme cases to be valid, and in others has led to the issue of -writs in the prize court.
 Colt has been explicitly ac- knowledged by the special represen- tatives of the American claimants, who have been in constant and direct communication with the Board of Trade, that all the claims so far sub- la1itted under the cotton arrangement have been settled with the utmost prcmptitude so soon as the production of the necessary documents by the claimants allowed of this being done. There is, at the present moment, no claim before his majesty's governments that has not been paid, and the sums so paid over are already consider ably in excess of the amounts realized by the sale of the goods.
 Facts and Figures
 "st7) As regards the more general allegation of delay in dealing with
 cases of detained cargces, the follow ing facts and fifures may be quoted:
 The total number of vessels which
 having cleared from United States
 ports since the initiation of the re-
 taliatory measures against German
 trade are still detained in United
 Kingdcm ports, is twenty-seven; of
 this number, eight are discharging
 cotton which his majesty's govern
 1nent has agreed to purchase under the above arrangem ent. Of the re-