BRITAIN'S BLACK LIST

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2838, 1 August 1916, Page 5

BRITAIN'S BLACK LIST

THE AMERICAN NOTE , "PAINFUL SURPRISE", CANNOT ACQUIESCE Australian-New Zealand Cable AKociation. London, July SO. The Press Bureau,publishes the American Note oil tho British black list. The Note expresses painful surprise at the arbitrary interference with neutral trade, against which it must protest in most.' decided terms. It complains of the liarsh and even disastrous effects of a Hack list policy, which is susceptible to so wide an application that the possibilities are serious; amounting to incalculable interruptions of American trade and tho undeserved injury to American citizens which are without limit. "The British measures are essentially inconsistent with neutral rights. American citizens arc entirely within their rights in attempting to trade with belligerents, subject only to well-defined international practices and understandings, which tho American Government considers the British Government have too lightly and too frequently disregarded. The black list brushes aside the safeguards of neutral ■ rights and condemns noutrals and their goods without . • hearing or .notice. "It is manifestly out of the question for the American Government to ao-' quieseo in a practice inconsistent with justice, amity, and fairness. It does not'seek to shield tho unneutral acts of Americans, but the British Government cannot expect it to see its citizens plac- , ed in an ex-parte blaok list without calling tho attention of tho British Government in the gravest terms to the serious consequences to neutral rights and relations which such an act must necessarily involve. , "Tho Government hopes 'and believes that the British Government, in its natural absorption in a single pressing ob-_ ject of policy, acted without realising the ■undesirable "results which are possible." REQUEST TO DUTCH BANKERS Amstordam, July 30. ■ London bankers have asked DutcK bankers ito sign a declaration, declining business diroctly or indirectly with firms on the black list having dealings witli Germany. ~\ The Dutch bankers have opened nego-( tiations with a view to a mitigation ol the proposal. BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE 1 BALTIC SINKING OF A GERMAN STEAMER. Copenhagen, July SO. A submarine, apparently an English one, torpedoed tho Norderney. A German torpedo-boat attacked the submarine, which dodged the shells and its- , caped. ' [The Norddeutscher-Lloyd steamer Norderney (M 97 tons), bound from Sweden, with iron ore, was sunk in the Baltic, the captain and three of the crew being' drowned.] THE APPAM CASE AMERICA'S LEGAL PRONOUNCE- ' MENT. Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New York, July 30. The Federal Court finding adds: The 'action of the German Prize Court in. . declaring the Appam a prize does not • affect the jurisdiction of the American Courts, which is. established by a long line of precedents. The Appam came without permission, and cannot leave owing to lack of a crew; therefore, she must be treated as abandoned and stranded on our shores. v . Washington, July 30. Reports say that the Appam decision forces the United States Government to decide tie future of Captain Ber? and the prizo crow. If they are Regarded as .part of the German naval forces they must bo interned. Tho State Department expects an appeal to the Supremo Court. [The British steamer Appam was captured in the Atlantic Ocean by the German raiding "cruiser Moewe, and font _ to Newport News in charge of a prize crew, commanded by Lieutenant Berg. Britain claimed the return, of the vessel oij tho ground that a belligerent could not use a neutral port as a "store" for prizes of war." Germany's claim to.tho vessel was based on an alleged privilege granted in a Bpecial treaty between the United States and Prussia.] 0