CONSULAR OFFICERS.

Shannon News, 2 March 1923, Page 4

CONSULAR OFFICERS.

defended by U.S.A

Booking trips to America,

(Received Thursday, 9.55 p.m.) WASHINGTON, February 28. The State Department has published the text of the Note to Britain. The Note states that the Newcastle Consulate confirms the ■ informal intimations previously conveyed. The Note further points out that the United States has never questioned Britain’s right to cancel the exequatur of any American Consul, on the ground that he is persona non grata, but where specific charges are advanced these must be substantiated. The United States calls into question the parallel Britain drew between this case and the United States’ cancellation of British Consul’s exequaturs at Philadelphia New York'and Cincinnati in, 1858, on the grounds of illegal recruiting. Judicial proceedings brought against these later showed them to be 1 guiltv of violations of the law. Mr Hughes has also issued an explanatory statement that Britain, in January, 1922, asked the United States voluntarily to withdraw Messrs Brooks and Slater on the ground that they were attempting, by unfair means, to ipduce passengers to travel by American boats. The United States investigated the matters and found that the charges were not true and refused to withdraw them.