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Title: The Great war
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Allen, George Henry, 1876- Whitehead, Henry C., 1873- Chadwick, French Ensor, 1844-1919 Sims, William Sowden, 1858-1936 McAndrew, James William, 1862-1922 Wiley, Edwin, 1872-
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: Philadelphia : G. Barrie's Sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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errupted by block-ade; the conveyance by neutrals to belligerents of contra-band articles is always unlawful and such articles may alwaysbe seized during transit by sea. Hence, while articles notcontraband might be sent to Matamoras and beyond to therebel regions, where the communications were not inter-rupted by blockade, articles of a contraband character,destined in fact to a state in rebellion or for the use of therebel military forces, were liable to capture though pri-marily destined for Matamoras. The discussion was prolonged for many months in anineffectual correspondence between the two governments, until the American claims were emphatically summed upin a note delivered to the British Foreign Office throughthe American Embassy in London on November 5, 1915. This communication pointed out that the delays imposedupon the cargoes of American ships destined for neutralports had become increasingly vexatious. Instead of act-ing on the basis of such evidence as could be obtained by
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President Wilson delivering his War Message in the Senate Chamber to the joint session of Congress on Monday night, April 2, 1917. - The United States and the European War 449
examination at sea, the British authorities often detainedvessels in port on mere suspicion, awaiting evidence fromextraneous sources to justify the institution of prize courtproceedings, and thereby causing loss, delay, and expensesto the owners, which were practically destroying much ofthe export trade of the United States to the neutral countriesin Europe. British suspicions created by the comparativevalues of American exportation to certain neutral countries,then and before the war, were unjustifiable, because theincreased prices of the commodities were not taken intoconsideration and British exports to the same countries hadlikewise increased. The United States claimed the rightto sell goods into the common stock of neutral countrieswithout respect to the ultimate disposition of the goodsthus sold. It maintained, moreover, that the blockade wasillegal, that it was not applied impartially to ships of allnations, and that its extension to

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