Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-06-26
STATE DEPARTMENT BUSY
WITH PROBLEMS OF WAR
Questions Growing Out of Conflict in
Europe Occupy Attention
Of Officials.
NEW NOTE on THE FRYE CASE
Reply to Last German Communica-
ton Is Sent to Bcrlin-Asks Rep
aratton Without Reference to Prize
Court Proceedings.

WASHlNGTON. June 25-In addition
TO exchange OF notes with Germany on
the submarine war. the case of the
Am erican sailing ship William r. FRYE.
sunk by the Prinz Eitcl Friedrich. and
othcr matters, as we'll as in addition to
exchanges Of notes with Great Britain
on the complaints being made BY Unit
ed states shippers that their goods are
held up abroad and ships DELAYED tn
Department of state is occuDied with
several other questions growing out Of
tho war, which are giving concern. and
with which it is in correspondcnco with
various belliCerent countries The re
ply TO the last German note regarding
the sinking Of tn" Frye was dispatched
II Berlin last night; and il is expected
that the text OF il shortly viii DO made
public In substance. the reply rcitcr-
atcs the contention that the sinking o..
the FRYE was in violation OF interma-
tional Law and of the prussian- Arl@ri-
can treaty of 1925. and asks for rcpa-
ration without reference to prize court
proceedings Germany has agreed to
make reparation under tho treaty Of
1925. but II has justified. in its last
statement 10 the United states. the de-
struction of the Frye and has referred
tho case TO a prize court.
The Department Of state is now able
of tamperinE with neutral mail by cen
sors in hclligcrent countries. and to
the subject Of passports for American
citizens in tho countries AT war or
whose business calls them there OF
necessity Naturalized Americans OF
German Austro- Hungarian or Turkish
origin are to be barred from France as
rrecaution against possibilities of
espionage, according "a dispatch re-
ceived at the State Department from
AMI ssador Page iN London
No Protest on Nnii.
No protest will be made by tn" United
states against intarferences wi'h Ancr-
lean mails passing through European
he!lircrent territory To ncutrals. since
helligercnts are permitted TO censor
cable messages in transit thvonsh thcl'
territory. officials here take the posi-
ton that letters would seem 10 be sub
;ect to the same risks
In addition to the formal ommunica :
ton from sweden. the state Depart
mert has received complaints indi"st-
ing that mails both to and from Amer
ica have b"cn subjected TO rigid cen
sorship in England The matter was
referred 10 the rost Once Department.
which resulted in the order announced
in the following statement:
Because of the reports that United
states mails destined for NORWAY. Swc-
deri Denmark and the Netherlands in
have ncen opened and censored, Post
mastcr-General Burleson has direct cd
thai until futhcr orders the dispatch
Of all mails for those countries shall
ne made by vessels sailing direct there
10 and not touching at any port of bel
| liEerents."
Further Time Granted Importers.
Further extension Of time has been
granted to importers by the British
government, the State Department an
nounces in which to get goods out of
Germany which were contracted for
or purchased before March last, the
effective date of the British orders in
council The date of special permits
under which these shipments could be
brought out of Germany via neutral
ports had been last set at June Is,
after several extensions. but embassy
officials here have informed the state
Department that additional time will
be granted where ii is shown that the
previous tim. limit was Inadequate.
No new date is set, each case, appar
emily, to be considered on it's merits.
British consular agents at Rotterdam
have been Informed of the new ruling.
The state Department has had no
official connections with these nego-
tiations, which have been carried on
between importers and the British en-
bassy, although the trade advisers
have aided the importers in an unoni-
cial way