AMERICAN NOTE TO BRITAIN

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2351, 6 January 1915, Page 5

AMERICAN NOTE TO BRITAIN

REPLY WILL BE SATISFACTORY INFLUENCE OP BEEF AND COTTON SHIPPERS London, January 4. The "Daily Telegraph's" Washington correspondent states that Mr. Page, the United States Ambassador in London, informed President Wilson that Britain's reply would be satisfactory, to Mr. Wilson; that some concessions would be made and others refused. The correspondent states that beef and cotton shippers, and. not German and American, are responsible for President Wilson's action. ' Southern cot-ton-growers are in a had way. Their initation and influence .countod with President Wilson.

CONTRABAND GOODS-TURPS, RESIN, AND COPPER. . - . London, January 4. Renter's' Washington correspondent states that Britain has informed America that turpentine and resin shipped before Britain declared.thom contraband, will bo paid for if seized; also that copper shipped before it was declared contraband has been paid for or released- ; No cargoes for Italy have been detained at Gibraltar since December 4. AMERICA URGED TO PROHIBIT EXPORT OF WAR SUPPLIES. ' . Washington, January 4. German and other delegations appeared before the House of Representatives Foreign Relation Committee to urge the prohibition of the export •of war supplies to Europs oh.tho around that Germany's wwaioß rlohs WM'4 , bene&t&e, awing.. to m -Raver of the Brftuh Fleet.

SHIP PURCHASE BILL IN THE SENATE' DESCRIBED 'AS BEING THOROUGHLY VICIOUS. (Rec. January 5, 8.50 p.m.) mi cm • t> i. «■.• , Washington, January 5. llio Ship J. urchaso Bill now bofore the Senate was made a strictly party moasiiro. Senator Loclro doscribod it as thoroughly vicious economically and politically, ana tho grossest kind of subsidy. Senator Root opposed tho measure on tho ground that there was a possibility of tho Government's Rood faith beiiiß questioned, should there bo discovered any .goods convoyed m tho ships and destined for belligerents. . , -'toutor udds: It ib understood that Britain will give assurnnoo's not to mtorforo with copper shipments sont to Italy if consigned to wcll-toiown firms ill Italian ships and similar treatment will bo given shipments .to Sweden and Holland, but it is not clear whether in Swedish or Dutch ships. U-ho {ship Purchase Bill is obviously tho outcome of tho suggestion that tho American Government should purchase belligerents' vessels interned in tho United States and utilise them for the carriage of American merchandise. Ine copper interests of America have boon seriously affected by the metal being declared contraband.. Colonel Jackling, manager of tho largest group of copper mines, stated that Biitain's declaration that copper was contraband would causo a reduction of 800,000,0001b. in the annual production, and a loss of income to producers of £30,000,000.] ' COST OP THE EMBARGO ON RUBBER. (Reo. January 5, 11.30 p.m.) The Rubber Club' asserts that the British embargo on rubber is coßtraa the industry about a quarter of a million dollars daily. It had raised the price to ninety cents per pound, and threatens to throw idle 125,000 workers.