The House of Commons passed the Third Reading of the new Trading with the Enemy Bill and voted the Supplementary Navy Estimate for an additional 50,000 men. ashington, Jan. 25.
The American Government has objected to the application of Great Britain's Trading with the Enemy Act as affecting neutral trade. the Straits of Gibraltar, so stopping everything going to Germany and thus bringing the war to speedy close. This would be the same a8 President Lincoln's blockade of the Southern B: ates during the American Civil War.
Sir Edward Grey replied that the recent figures published in some newspapers alleging a big leakage +o Germany through neutral eountries from America were grotesque and misleading under investigation because they ignored the fact that in some cases American supplies to neutral countries replaced the supplies formerly received by those countries from Germany.
Sir Edward Grey said that the last American No'e contained "things which if conceded would result in contraband reaching the enemy but he did not take that to be the attitude of America or of
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