The Sentinel=record., 1915-03-17

Washington March lG.-Presidont Wilson indicated to callers today that strong protest would be made by the United States government against the action of Great Britain and her allies in subjecting neutral commerce to the numerous restrictions imposed upon it by British order in council just issued.
 Senator Walsh of Montana. an au- thorIty on international law and one of the administration spokesmen in defense ol the legal side of the ship purchase bill, talked at length with the president tonight about the situa- tion Re had come to the white house on another subject but found the sit nation produced by the commercial blockade uppermost in the presidents mind
 As he left the white house Senator Walsh said the British action had no precedent in law or history and that an unusually vigorous protest should be made against it. He spoke of the general regret among senators now that before the last congress adjourn. ed, power had not been given to the president to declare embargoes on eN- ports from this country to beniger. euts He added, however. he had np idea that the president would cail an extra session for that purpose.
 Officials who studied the British of- der in council in the text as trans mitted by Ambassador Page and the British embassy found differences in it from the version in the cable dis. patcues but would not indicate wheth. CT they were of an important char acter Their dspleasure at the con tents of the oruer was evident and they made no effort ID conceal the,: disappointment at it's failure to give American commerce relief from inter. ference while in transit to neutral countries.
 The British order will be made pub- lie tomorrow by the state department, together with the full text of the notes 10 and from Great Britain and Ger many in which the United States 'hh"Ii' NN fI luE hFNhi dtl t.'lAiA'It. mont of submarine warfare and the shipment of conditional cont,aband 10 civilians
 The department also has arranged with the British foreign office 10 make public late tomorrow the reply of the British government to the American note of inquiry asking how the Brit. i7h embargo on commerce with Ge.- many was to be carried out in prac- tice. This is understood to contain the British order as well as an a1- dtonal memorandum in which the word blockade appears for the first time
 1t is believed that an explanation $ given of why formal blockade was not instituted. Great Britain is be- ieYed to haze pointed out that to have done so would require confisca- ton of all cargOes, whereas under the present declaration the cargoes arg sold and the exporters reimbursed
 he activity of submarines has made the maintenance of an effective block ade near the German coast hazard ous performance, and officials regard the order in council as extending the operations of the blockade to any point on the high seas It was be- cause of this, it is believed nere that Great Britain thought it expedient to concede a point on the right of abso- l'te confiscation which prevails under an effective blockade
 High offiials who read the various notes and the order in council ex- pressed no formal opinion. That the United States had obtained little sat isfaction from it's previous protets was agreed in official quarters Amer lcan Ambassador Sharp at Paris, cabled the state department today that the French government mad made additions 10 its lists of contraband similar to the latest British additions.