London, Feb. 23.
The Government has had no officio: knowledge of foreign reports that British Marines seized United States Clipper mail at Bermuda on January 18 at the point of bayonets, the Foreign Office spokesman said yesterday.
No reports of such an incident had been received, the spokesman said, and no protests were made by the' United States. Therefore, he asserted it might be concluded that the incident was trivial—United Press.
U.S. Senators -Annoyed Washington, Feb, 23.
The seizure of Clipper mail at Bermuda was described yesterday by Senator Harry Truman, Missouri Democrat, as a "helluva note!"—United Press.
"Foolish Use of Rights"
Washington, Feb. 23, Great Britain's "insistence" on censoring United States mails in Bermuda was criticized by several Senators in statements made last night, Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, declared that Britain had made "excessive and very foolish use" of her right as a belligerent to censor American mail. He said there was no doubt that Britain had the right to examine for contraband all mail aboard the Clipper.
Although the report that armed British marines had boarded a Clipper flying-boat in Bermuda to enforce the removal of mail for censorship, was denied by British officials in Bermuda, who described it as "utter nonsense," Senator Bennett C. Clark (Democrat: Missouri) secured the unanimous consent of the Senate for the insertion in the records of the newspaper account of the alleged Bermuda incident, which he attacked as a "high-handed pro-
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