BRITAIN'S EFFECTIVE BLOCKADE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2519, 21 July 1915, Page 7

BRITAIN'S EFFECTIVE BLOCKADE

COUNT BERNSTORFF : ENDEAVOURS . TO END IT - PROPOSAL TO AMERICA By Telerrapli—Press London, July 19. Mr. Robert Lansing (Secretary of. State) and Count Bernstorff" (Gorman Ambassador) 'havo conferred : at' New York. Count Bernstorff is proposing that America should ask Britain, to end ' tho blockade if Germany will undertake to cease submarine operations; ~ The "Times" Washington correspondent verifies the report of the interview. Count Bernstorif requested tha- conference in order to interpret the German Note. Department of Commerce figures show the effectiveness of the British, blockade. The value of American, exports to Germany during June. was :-£BO,OOO, compared with. £2,800,000' in 1914. The American "Evening Mail" states that Mr. Lansing infornled' Cflunt 'Bernstorff that America was unable to place itselfin a position' of bargaining with Britain over an entirely, German-Bri-tish quarrol. AMERICA'S NEXT NOTE. ■ AN ULTIMATUM, BUT NOT-OF, . AVAR. Washington, July, 19. In consequence of the Ordtaa 'mcs» dent) it is believed that' President Wilson will couch the next United States' Note to Germany in the form of an ultimatum—not of war, hut the breaking oil of diplomatic relations. . SHARP AND TO THE POINT. (Rec. July 20, 3.30 p.m.) New York, July 20, It is expected that the United States' reply to the German Note to-morrow will be sliarp and to the point. . The "Tribune" says, that America won't tolerate any, more German evasion. The time for parleying is past. The "Now York Times" states that another attack will force America to seek redress finally. ' v • The newspapers agree that the attempt on the, Orduna was a gross and premeditated violation of American rights, and there is no doubt that if it had been successful, America woula have been faced with the most menacing and critical situation in her history. [WILL BE SENT ON. SATURDAY;. (Rec. July 20, 11.55 p.m.) ; , New York, July 20. "President "Wilson arid "Mr.' Robert Lansing (Secretary'of State), agree that • the next communication, to. .Germany,' which .will be sent on Saturday, 'must mako it clear that the United States': cannot be impassivo in the event of another attack oil an unarmed and -unresisting ship, with, loss of American lives* ' The will point out more emphatically than heretofore the' earnest inten- ' tion of the United States not to surrender,any of her rights. America has, also dispatched a Note to Britain intimating her intention to insist on all rights under international law' in Prize Court'proceedings. The Note . is officially described as "a..caveat conserving the rights of American citizens' whose cases are about to be heard in. the British Prize Courts."