([mom serrisH LEGATION, PEKING.] London, Feb. 8.
The following statement is issued by the Foreign Office:
The use of a neutral flag is, with Seely has been pro-certain limitations, well established in practice as a ruse de guerre.
Washington, Feb. 9.
Reuter's correspondent has the highest authority for stating that the view of the Administration re garding the hoisting of the United States flag on the Lusitania is that the use of other flags by the chips of warring nations is such a customary practice that no formal pro test need be made, but it is proper
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