The Soviet Note is understood to have been received in London with considerable surprise, and It is said that there is no likelihood of the arguments it contains being admitted.
British contraband polley and practice are stated to be fully in ac~ fordance' with international law. Belligerents are entitled to specify articles useful in the prosecution of War, which they will regard as contraband, and the classes of goods treated as contraband in the British proclamation of September 3 is said British Army Open to Volunteers London, Oct. 27.
The British army is now open for voluntary enlistment by men between the ages of 22 and 35, according to an announcement by the War Ofice. Volunteers may enlist for the armoured corps, cavalry, artil~ lery, engineers or infantry.—Reuter.
The City of Flint was released yesterday, it was believed to the German prize crew, and ordered out of Russia immediately, says a communi. que broadcast by the Moscow radio last night. No word had yet been received of the disposition of the American crew.
American and Soviet sources cateyorleally denied reports that sue City of Flint had already sailed from Mur mensk under the American flag. Both quarters said nothing was known beyond the statement of the communique that "it has been decided to release the ship, provided it sails Immediately.'
'At 4am. today the United States Ambassador, his' councillors, and oilier members of the staff of the American Embassy were awaiting oficial word from the Soviet Govern ment regarding the disposition of the vessel, but none had come up to that time. The only people in Moscow who seemed convinced were Germans, to correspond closely with those proclaimed to be contraband by both sides in the last war, including the United States. For instance, fuel, one fof the classes of goods to the inclusion fof which exception is taken in the: [Soviet Note, is stated to be an essential material in the conduct of a modern war, while cotton, which is also mentioned, is widely used in the [manufacture of explosives. Foodstuffs were treated as conditional contraband iv long ago as the 18th century.
As an appeal is made in the Soviet Note to the 1909 declaration of London, it is recalled that, although that declaration was never fully ratified joy. any Power, an attempt to apply was made by Britain in the early stages of the last war. This attempt broke down, and as it excluded from ithe list of contraband such articles. og metallic ones and cotton, its failure isnot surprising. who insisted that the City of Flint sailed under the German flog—United Press.
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