STOP PRESS NEWS

Horowhenua Chronicle, 15 November 1916, Page 3

STOP PRESS NEWS

A-X.Z. and Reuter Service). (Received This Day, 2 p.m.) THE BLACK LIST. London Nbv. 14. Replying tn the American Note protesting against the "black list" as an arbitrary .interference with neutral trade, Sir Edward Grey reiterates that the prohibition of trade with the firms in question applies only to British subjects, and this is indisputably within Bii.',tain's lights. Replying to the fears of a possible unwarranted expansion of the system lio points out that every addition to the list restricts British commercial opportunities, therefore Britain' 6 interest is tn confine the l r st to the utmost, but it now notorious that many firms in neutral countries have been active agents of the Germans espionage system and propaganda and' have supplied German cruisers and also organized paid miscreants to destroy ships and fact i-'es supplying 1 the Allies.

ft has been snggestedi that the militao v po-i tion is now such that nothing hip'ioir'iT in rlistnnt neutral countries rnn effret tbr> result. Sir Edward Grev wishes this were so, but still ther-> is i) '• !M_r and bitter struee'e ahead "tvl the ro s : b'e inconvenience to neutral* is 'neempnrable for a moment to tlie =nfferiivr and loss -occasioned tin mankind bv the prolongation of tho war even for a week. Great Britain i.s fully entitled to refuse bunker coal to ships carrying goods to "black lf!sted" firms, especially in view of Germany's efforts to redluce the world's tonnage, rendering it necessary to ieserve coal for possible British trade.

Between June Ist and 'September ■30th enemy submannes sank 262 vessels. whereof Go belonged to neutrals.

H 0 quotes tlie American Civil War precedents in justification of British act : on and trusts the explanations oj'ven will remove suspecion and erroneous views prevailing in tlie United States. THE BRITISH SUCCESS ON THE ANORE. New York ( Nov. 14. The British successes on the Ancre are enthusiastically commented upon by the New York Times military expert, who says its proves the Germans have insufficient reserves to protect their entire line, thus making surprise attacks in xinexpected places successful and tlie creating of the possibility of a general abandonment of the German front.