STRANGULATION OF GERMAN TRADE.
GREAT SUCCESS OF BRITISH
BLOCKADE
LONDON, Nov. 3
In the House of Commons debate, Lord Robert Cecil said it was essential to stop Germany's export trade^ and she would then be unable to pay for her imports. American statistics showed that we had stopped 96 per cent, of German exports. The blockade had been a great success, and, moreover, had been carried out without serious trouble with neutral Powers. Imports of cotton to Germany had practically ceased on June 1.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 November 1915, Page 5
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84STRANGULATION OF GERMAN TRADE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 4 November 1915, Page 5
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