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...chief development of the last week in regard to the ship-liquor question was the appearance in American waters of foreign vessels with liquor under seal?chiefly British vessels. The first two large liners to arrive with sealed liquor were the Baltic and the Berengaria. In accordance with the recent Supreme Court ruling the Treasury Department ordered the liquor seized...
...giving "incessant provocations." 5) The statement that "the establishment of rational relations between the States erected on the ruins of the Central Powers must be based on a coordination of Polish, Czecho-Slovakian and Yugoslavian policies toward Central European problems. The establishment of these relations, including as well the Baltic countries, will consolidate the peace of Europe...
Lord Curzon's high-handed note to Soviet Russia, demanding satisfaction for the seizure of a fishing trawler in the Baltic Sea, compensation for murdered and imprisoned Britishers, the cessation of anti-British propaganda in Asia and Afghanistan and the withdrawal of insulting letters by Gregory Weinstein attacking Britain for mediating to save Mgr. Butchka-vitch, has turned out to be a decided diplomatic victory for Great Britain...
...canny Britisher, with an eye to the vast trade possibilities in Russia, has sat patiently under repeated injuries, only sending occasional notes of dignified rebuke. A British civil engineer was executed in 1920, British fishermen have been molested and injured in the Baltic, British prestige has been undermined abroad by propaganda. But the straw which has broken the camel's back is the insolence with which British protests over the Church trials and executions have been received, an insolence "unexampled in the case of Governments affecting to be on friendly terms...
...company will develop the inland waterways of Russia with a view to forming a direct service between the Baltic Sea in the North and the Caspian Sea in the South. It is stated that the new route, which will follow the River Volga most of the way, will need only a small outlay for the purpose of deepening canals and small waterways...