THE ALLIES' RETALIATION.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13745, 7 April 1915, Page 5

THE ALLIES' RETALIATION.

ANOTHER AMERICAN NOTE

INTERFERENCE WITH NEUTRAL

TRADE

APPRECIATION OF BRITISH CON-

SIDERATION

(Received April 6, 2.35 p.m.)

London, April 5

Mr Page, the American Ambassador, handed to Sir Edward Grey the American Note 3 emphatsising that it was made in the most friendly spirit and in accordance with the uniform candour characterising the relations of the two Governments for a hundred years.

The Note points out that an unprecedented feature of the blockade is that it bars many neutral ports as though they were ports of Britain's enemies. The United States notes with gratification that wide discretion has been afforded the Prize Courts, and confidently expects that the powers given by the Order-in-Council will be restricted by orders to the executive officers which will modify in practical application those provisions which interrupt neutrals' legitimate trade.