Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1916 — “STOP SEIZING MAIL”-U. S. [ARTICLE]

“STOP SEIZING MAIL”-U. S.

Wilson Sends Drastic Note of Sea Issue—Says Holdings and Enforced Losses Must Cease, Washington, May 26.—The Unite! State denouncing interference with neutral mails, has notified Great Britain and France, that it can no longer tolerate the wrongs which American citizens have suffered and continue to suffer through the “lawless practice” those governments have indulged in and that only a radical change in policy, restoring the United States to its full rights as a neutral power, will be satisfactory. This notification is given in the latest American communication to the two governments, the text of which was made public by the state department tonight. The time in which the change must be effected is not specified, but the U. S. expects prompt action. “Onerous and Vexatious” abuses which have been perpetrated by the British and French governments in seizing and censoring neutral mails are recited in the communication and answers are made to the legal arguments contained in the reply of the Entente governments to the first American note on the subject. It is vigorously set forth that not on! < have American commercial interests been injured, but that the rights of property have been violated and the rules of international law and custom palpably disregaijied.