London, Jan. 11.
The papers are confident that Sir Edward Grey's reply to the American Note will be favourably received in the United Etates and will convince the mass of Americans that their grievances have no solid foundation while the British Note will clear the way for @ full and complete agreement, The English papers emphasize the fact that the British reply is characterized by the same friendly yot frank and practical spirit marking the American Note, The Morning Post" while commenting similarly on the conditions of the British Government's abandonment of the old practice of confiscating all enemy goods on neutral ships points out that every pound of food or raw material entering Germany will proportionately prolong the war and asks "Why deal tenderly with the trade made. of Germany who has dealt so rath-lessnly with the property and food of civilians in Belgium, France and Poland! The Allies, already, have been injured too much by such tions are intolerable."
The "Daily Chronicle" also, though in a more moderate tone, remarks that in view of the figures quoted in the British reply to the United States Note one is bound te k not whether the Navy has interfered too much but whether it has interfered enough
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