THE COTTON PROBLEM

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2523, 26 July 1915, Page 6

THE COTTON PROBLEM

HINT OF DIFFICULTIES WITH : UNITED STATES, By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ("Times'' and Sydney "Sun" Services.) London, July 23. A "Times" correspondent, claiming a knowledge of, the mind of tho authorities at Washington on tho conditions obtaining in the Southern States, writes: "I am certain that along the present lines of tlie cotton dispute, Great Britain is heading straight for a sharp difference of opinion with the United States, which should be 'avoided; When Congress reassembles in December it will bo immediately confronted .with a Bill calling on the Government to forbid the export of munitions of war. This is tho supreme objective .'of Gorman propagandists. "Simply to declare; cotton contraband will not meet the ease, but will only aggravate resentment in the South, and directly play into tho hands of pro-Ger-man agitators: I suggest 1 that Britain, after righting itself 'with American legal official opinion by placing cotton on the contraband list, should purchase an amount which' normally would go to the Central Empire, inv jiving an outlay of thirty millions."