BRITISH FAIR PLAY

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2407, 12 March 1915, Page 5

BRITISH FAIR PLAY

THE TSAR'S MOVEMENTS. • Londoii March 10, The High Commissioner reports:— l "The Tsar left the Imperial Palace at Tearkoe Seloe on Tuesday for' Helsingfors." CALL FOE MOKE DOCTORS. London, March 10. The War Office is appealing for mora doctors. . • ELEPHANTS AND POLAR DOGS AT. THE FRONT. ' Copenhagen, March 10. The Germans are employing Hagenbeck's Zoo elephants to clear the roads behind the firing line in France. ' Koenig, the explorer, is using fiftyseven Greenland dogs in war service, though he signed an agreement with the GreenlandT Administration that' they; would only be used on a South Pola expedition. FOOD SUPPLIES FOR HUNGARIAN CAPITAL. Venice, March 10. The Budapest City Council has ex-* pended three-quarters' of a million sterling on wheat, rye, barley, rice, cattlo, and pigs. BRITISH AIRMAN LOST, London, March 10; ; Lieutenant Shepherd, while flying at) Eastbourne, fell into the sea and was drowned.

DESPITE PREJUDICE OP HER INTERESTS . London, March 10. . .British.journal '.'Fairplay" says: ; Britain's observance of international Jaiv, in direct conflict with her own interests, has been exemplified in two directions. The President of the Admiralty Court over-ruled the objections of . the Attorney-General regarding a cap- ■ tured prize that contained 1000 tons of copper from the United States to Goth- : enburg, though Britain desired to requisition the copper for arsenal purposes. Britain was prepared to pay handsome* ly for the copper, which was for the use of contractors to the Swedish Government.

The second instance was the announcement, through the British Embassy at Washington, that, though measures were proposed to be taken restricting enemy trade, the rights of neutral/ contractors would.be respected to the extent that cotton consigned to neutral ports—only if all engagements as to sale, freightage, .and insurance were contraoted for before March 2— would be allowed free passage; or, if seized, compensation would be paid at;' contract price, periods of grace being fixed, within the current month, during which cargoes may he loaded and vessels dispatched. The announcement, adds "Fairplay," l foreshadows Orders-in-Council governing all enemy trade through neutral channels. f*