London, Oct. 27.
The British Government cannot admit the Soviet Government's assertion contained in its Note to Britain regarding the. British contraband list that its merchant ships form state property and, thus, should not be subjected to any measures of compulsion applied to privately-owned merchantmen, according to Reuter's Diplomatic Correspondent.
The immunity of State shipping, when the precept of international law was laid down, it is claimed, was. intended to apply principally to warships, as-government-owned, merchant shipping was then unknown.
It'is pointed out that the German list of contraband seems to correspond very closely. to the British.
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