REASONABLE AND AMICABLE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVI, Issue 16750, 4 January 1915, Page 7

REASONABLE AND AMICABLE.

THE BRITISH ATTITUDE. (Received January 3, 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 2. The American Ambassador in a long' report from London described the British attitude on the contraband question as entirely friendly. Press criticism was reasonable and amicable. A portion ,o£ British opinion thought that the American Note was chiefly for home consumption and also that it was due to the pressure of German-Ameri-can sentiment.

Washington officials denied such implications. The United States was thor- v oughly in earnest and had a very definite cause of grievance- It wis hoped! that owing to the amicable British at-| titude everything would be satisfactorily arranged.

A WORD FOR AMERICA. "Timei" and Sydney "Sun" Serricei.

LONDON, December 1! t The naval correspondent of "Theh Times" says:—"American merchants' and shippers should remember that if the British Navy had not, curtailed the activities of I German raiders, the trade of neu<* tral countries would have been 1 seriously hampered, j and they would have suffered more than they are likely to do, now. If Admiral von Tirpitss's threat ot a submarine attack comes to anything, Americans will suffer unless the British. Navy protects them."

OPINION IN CANADA. LONDON, January 1

The "Times" Toronto correspondent says that Canada does not fear troubk between the United' States and Britain. The sympathies of tho American people are overwlielraingly with the Allies.

BRITAIN'S RIGHTS

LONDON, January 2. "The Times'; in a leader eays':—''We believe that our case is so good that it will convince Americans that while wa cannot relax our grip upcri the_ enemy in this struggle for national existence, we are sincerely anxious to exercise our rights with the least possible inconvenience to the legitimate, honest trade of neutrals, particularly our American friends."