Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1916-01-19
PREDICT BRITAIN
SOON WILL APPLY
ACTUAL BLOCKADE
Conditions Arising From Orders
In Council Soon to Be ST.
perseded to Meet Amer
lean Views.
WON'T RELAX SEA GRIP
London Times Warns United
States England Will Stop at
Nothing to Hold Naval
Advantage.
WON'T RELAX SEA GRIP

Nothing to Hold Naval
Advantage.
London. Jan. 17.-That Great Britain
will soon announce the establishment
of an actual blockade of Germany and
her allies thereby superseding the
condition which nae been established
by orders i'm council. was the state
ment made today by Americans who
have been in close contact with the
machinery OF the British orders in
council in of their action
here as representatives OF American
shippers whose business had been af-
fected by the execution of the orders.
A person who a Observation-Disclosures
ly and who has acted as a representa-
tive of American interests in connec-
ton with their prize court proceedings
reviewed today for the Associated
Press. the evolution of orders in coun-
Gil. He said:
Back of international Law.
The British government shows an
unmistakable tendency now to shift
around to the persistently expressed
American contention that the interna-
tional law which prevailed before the
present war would ultimately govern
Great Britain in the assertion of her
sea owe 1t is well known that when
NiC Wol OcSd lIlC duIIllIdlIy AksGO Oh
the American vessels the necessity for
the declaration of an actual blockade.
but the latter believed that the sus-
capabilities of neutrals could be bet
ter met by orders in council and after
the adoption of these the government
began its interminable agreement with
neutrals. These agreements might have
succeeded had it not been for OPPOSE
ton OF he United States which took
the stand from the first that the or
ders i'm council were illegal and that
therefore ven yelled or sub-rosa rec
ognitio. of them in forms similar to
the Danish agreement and the Neither
lands Overseas trust, would be a sur
render of American sovereignty under
international law. The smaller neu-
trail states began to chafe. under the
agreements.
The compromise out of court by the
British government with the Chicago
packers is the best concrete evidence of
the modification of the orders in coun-
ell to meet the conceptions of interna-
tional law existing before the war.
New Code Doomed To Fail.
Great Britain's attempts to sub
stitute a code of her own that would
she herself may be a neutral, are
doomed to fail, and / should not be sur
prised If the foreign office adopts the
course recommended by the admiralty
and declared an actual blockade.
How strictly an actual blockade has
been enforced is a subject of specula-
ton. There is no doubt in my mind
that the recent heavy shipments to
Denmark, under the Danish agreement
had a tremendous effect in lowering
the price of the German mark and there
are many strong adherents both i'm and
out of parliament of the c%ontraband
while keeping an iron clad carrier
against her exports.
Even the British officials admit that
a declaration of actual blockade womb
have strong backing in American prec-
edents. which are now lacking for the
orders in council.'
Warns United States.
The Pail Mall Gazette, discussing the
American press reports regarding the
attitude which the United States NAV
adopt with regard to the blockade
question. says:
IF Count Bernstorff succeeds in se-
curing a quid pro u for the out
acts of piracy and succeeds in enlist
ing the United States as one of Ger
many's minor indirect allies in her ef-
forts to rule the world, we may expec,
fresh attacks upon III Interpretation
of international law. If President Will
obligingly constructed for him by Ber-
lin. 1T lis well he should realize where
1t is going to lead him.
The empire which is shedding blood
and not ink for the vindication Of
neutral rights has reached a stage
in the conflict where t~echnicalities
will no be allowed to restrain the
legitimate use of all it's ear of
warfare.
Our rights to prevent supplies from
reaching the enemy is absolute. No
British government would dare to re-
lax it grip on Germany now, :, def
erence to interests and threats of out
siders. who are chiefly interested in
what profit they a make out of the
worlds agony.
Look for Fair Play.
I'VE must not claim" says the
Westminster Gazette. but we find II
difficult to believe tina the Democratic
people of a new world will ALLOW their
influence to be used to disarm the dem
ocratic peoples Of the old world in
their struggle for liberty against mill
tar" domination. They will be sure
to iook back on their own history and
remember what they said when neu-
trails demanded they break their block
d of the southern states"
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