REAL MOTIVE OF THE BLOCKADE
TO REDUCE MORAL OF THE ALLIES
(Received February 23, 9 a.m.)
PARIS, 22nd February.
■ The United Press Agency, in an interview with Admiral Lacaze (French Minister of Marine), states that the German submarine blockade has never succeeded. German trickiness inaugurated the commercial submarines, ostensibly to carry merchandise, but in reality to supply the war submarines with necessaries to enable them to prolong their cruises. A hundred ships a day Jiave arrived, untouched, at French ports, just as before the blockade started. The real motive of the blockade was probably psychological, Germany thinking .to reduce the moral of the Allies when she was unable to beat the Allied armies. Brute strength of this kind was worthless. ,
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 47, 23 February 1917, Page 7
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120REAL MOTIVE OF THE BLOCKADE Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 47, 23 February 1917, Page 7
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