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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11752, 1 August 1916, Page 7

(Continued from Page 6.) (Received Monday, 11.45 a.m.) ROTTERDAM, Sunday. During an anti-German riot over the Fryatt ease, the crowd smashed the windows of the German Consulate.. BALTIC. (Received 'Monday, 11.25 a.m.) LONDON, Sunday. The Servians, advancing northward of \*(>deiia (30 miles south-east oi' Monastic), captured Fort Kovil. The Bulgars fled to the mountain nidges, leaving many dead. BRfTAL GERMAN TACTICS. (Received Mondav, 9.10 a.m.) PARIS, Sunday. The military commander at Lille posted a notice an the. house of all inhabitants, which read as follows: — "This house, except the children under 14, their mothers, and old men, must he ready to leave in an hour and a half. They must collect in front of their house's. If the weather is had they may remain indoors, but the doors must be open. Any appeal will be useless. No inhabitant may leave his house before 8 o'clock in the morning. Anyone who tries to escape, o« being taken, will be pitilessly punished." (Received Monday, 9.30 a.m.) PARTS, Sunday. The Government ha s sent a Note to the Neutrals respecting the treatment of the population of invaded J territory, also a document showing the various kinds of treatment which is contrary to all usages of war, fo which tho inhabitants have been subjected. • ' ■■-••■''' ' The Note adds that if Germany i wishes to contest the evidence she has i only to consent to an impartial investigation by neutral Powers. , ! THE BLACK LIST. . (Received Monday, 9.10 a.m.) AMSTERDAM, Sunday. London bankers have asked Dutch bankers to sign a declaration declining to do business, directly or indirectly, with black-listed firms having dealings with Germany. The Dutch have opened negotiations with a view to "the mitigation of the ' proposal. _ 11 TEXT OF NOTE. (Received Monday, 9.45 LONDON, Sunday. | The Press Bureau publishes the American Note re the British black < list. i The Note expresses painful surprise I at the arbitrary interference regard-, ' ing neutral trade, against which it must protest in most decided terms. The Note complains of the harsh, eve n disastrous, effects of the black list policy, which is susceptible to so wide an application that there are possibilities that serious and incalculable interruptions of American trade and undeserved fiiiury to American citizens are limitless. Tfie British measures'are essentially inconsistent with the neutral rights, j American citizens are entirely within their rights in attempting to trade with belligerents, subject only _to well-defined international practices and understandings which the American Government considers the British Government over-lightly and overfrequently disregarded. The black list brushes aside the safeguards of neutral rights, and condemns neutrals and. their goods without hearing or . notice. It is manifestly out of the question for the American .Government to acquiesce in a practice which is inconsistent with justice, amity and fairness. It does not seek to shield Americans for un-neutral acts, but the British Government cannot expect it to see citizens placed ex parte on the black list without calling the attention of the British Government in the gravest term s to the serious consequences to neutral rights and regulations which such an act must necessarily involve. The Note hope s and believes that' the British Government, in natural absorption in the single pressing object of policy, acted without realising the undesirable results which are possible. BRITISH REPLY. (Received Monday, 12.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, Monday. A new British memorandum states that no restrictions will be made to tho neutral trade of black-listed firms unless it is systematically used to cover trade Avith tho enemy. THE APPAMI TO BE RESTORED TO BRITISH OWNERS. (Renter's Telegram.) NORFOLK (Virginia), July 30. The Federal Court has ordered the restoration of the Appam to the British owners. It decided that the prize cannot be brought into neutral waters without a convoy. The manner in which the Appam was brought in was n violation of United States neutrality. THE "COLD FEET BRIGADE. - ' SYDNEY, July 30. Following voluminous correspondence in the press and many fervid protests against the stifling of free speech, the anti-Conscriptionists, despite official warning of possible trouble, announced a meeting at the Domain to-day. Forty thousand people assembled, • n nd a big force of' police was provided to see fair play for the anti-Con-jcriptionists', who, however, were apparently suffering from an attack of "cold feet," and failed to face the music. FISHING FLEET RAIDED. Australian and N.Z. Cattle Association LONDON, July 29. Submarines raided a fishing fleet in the North Sea, and are reported to have simk eight boats. Five of the boats' crews were landed at Shields, and the crews were treated courteously.