BRITISH BLOCKADE.
SOUND AND VALID.
REPLY TO AMERICA,
MITIGATING HARDSHIPS.
Washington, April 26. The reply of the British Government to tho American protest against the allies' alleged interference with neutral trade contends that the practices are judicially I sound and valid. The relief neutrals seek, the British Note con- : tends, will bo obtained by a mitigation of hardships rather than by an abrupt change in the theory and (application of a policy which is based on admitted principles of international law, carefully adjusted to the altered conditions of modern ■ warfare. An impartial and influential commission has been appointed 1 to find ways to minimise the delays. [ The Note pledges the allies to make the restraint of trade as little burdensome on neutrals as possible,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16215, 28 April 1916, Page 6
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