America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 83, 12 April 1915, Page 5

America

NOTE FROM GERMANY.

QUESTION OF U.S.A. NEUTRALITY Washington. April 10. Germany has addressed a Note complaining that the United States is not observing neutrality, through her failure to accomplish anything in displomatic correspondence with the Allies in the direction of obtaining for American exporters the right to ship foodstuffs for the civilian population of a belligerent country. The Note quotes the American embargo on the exportation of arms to Mexico in 19115 as a precedent for its demands. Petrograd ,April 19. The German Note to the I nited States complains that the latter has accomplished nothing anent the rights to ship foodstuffs to belligerent civilians. America has virtually acquiesced in the British blockade of German commerce. While the American Government insists on the legal right to ship arms and ammunition to the Allies she [does not pursue the right to ship food'stuffs and nou-coutrabaud to belligerent civilians. Germany urges a better observance of the spirit of neu- , trality.