THE THREATENED BLOCKADE.
BRITAIN NOT ALARMED,
SHIPPING NORMAL IX THE
CHAXXEL
(Received Fcbrtiary 20th. 12.30 a.m.) I/OX DON. February 19. Despite tho blockade, shipping in the Channel is normal. At Bristol. Glasgow, and Liverpool tho threats are beinc similarly ignored.
Tho ''Daily Mails Copenhagen correspondent oonfi,rtne the report tiiat the Kaiser, Prince. Henry of Prussia, and
Admiral ron Tirpitz hare gone to "WilhclmshaTcn to direct the blockade. •The latest announcement in Berlin is that tho Germane have built I'M big mine-laying submarines in the last six months. Each carries a hundred mince.
The "Daily Chronicle"" says that the Gorman blockade finds not merely British shipping, but that of most neutral countries, cool and unmoved. Tho threat is generally taken as an expression of German exasperation and an excu?o for deliberate atrocities on tho sea. but mainly as an attempt, to two the Vnited States as a lever to release Britain*, grip on the eta.
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Press, Volume LI, Issue 15208, 20 February 1915, Page 9
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154THE THREATENED BLOCKADE. Press, Volume LI, Issue 15208, 20 February 1915, Page 9
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