6 MARCH 1915, Page 3

The dispute about the 'Dacia' (the German ship wide!: was

bought by a German-American) took an unexpected direction at the end of last week, when the vessel was seized in the Channel by a French cruiser and taken to Brest for the judgment of a Prize Court. Thus the Anglo-American question suddenly became a Franco.Ammican question. The irony of events was as striking, and one might even say as humorous, as when the ' Wilhelmina ' was forced to run into the English jaws by stress of the heavy weather which drove her into Falmouth. The 'Dacia' was carrying cotton from Galveston to Rotterdam. The United States Government will probably await the judgment of the Court before taking any action.