THE BLOCKADE.

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2576, 8 March 1915, Page 2

THE BLOCKADE.

WHAT GEH MANS AD.MII

BT ELBCTIUO TELKGEA.PH. COPYRIGHT. PRE PB£BB ASSOCIATION. (Received March 7. 8.40 a.m.) Copenhagen. March 7. Tbe Berliner Tageblatt admits that, aeording to news from neutral countries, more than seven German submarines have been sunk since February 18, when Germany commenced her blockade. Scandinavian shipping companies refuse to carry German goods to America. The Gorman Admirals state that the strain on submarine crews is so great that it will be some weeks before fresh attempts are made. London, March 0. M. Augagneur. the French Minister of -Marine, interviewed, said: Not another ship shall reach Germany if we can help it. I think we can stop thorn. AYe observed from the start all the rules of civilised warfare. Germany has broken them all, putting herself on the same plane as savages. We shall staivo her out. People state that Germany has secretly built many large submarines. I know better. Neither England nor Erance. i.s in the least frightened.

The. Holland-Amerika. liner # Noordemyk. bound for America, is'returning to Rotterdam badly damaged. It is believed she was torpedoed in ihe. Channel.

Official. In tho English Channel, a French warship shelled thrice and hit a submarine, which disappeared,