The memorandum issued the German Government, which ates its future policy with reference to enemy and neutral mercantile marine, is a subtle concoction of half-truths, ambi-gulfies and absolute falsehoods. This document. is so replete misstatements that it is quite impossible in the space at our dis-averse the whole of the assertions contained in it. Open-with a general allegation that jreut Britain has carried on cantile warfare against Ger-way that defies all the principles of international law,"" the memorandum refers to the Declaration of London, and it is asserted that ''the British Government has announced in a number of decrees that the London Declaration concerning naval warfare is binding on her naval forces, but in reality she has renounced the Declaration in its most important particulars'', etc. This is a fair specimen of German inaccuracy. In August last Great Britain announced that it was her intention, with certain reservations, to abide by the Declaration of London. The House of Lords had refused to ratify the inal fr
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