THE BLOCKADE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17078, 29 January 1916, Page 9

THE BLOCKADE.

VIEWS OF NEWSPAPERS. SIR EDWARD GREY’S SPEECH. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. LONDON, January 27. The “Daily Mail” expresses, the opinion that Sir Edward Grey's attack on the scaremongering Press was an impudent invention based on grotesque figures. The “Daily Chronicle” attacks the Foreign Office, saying that its policy represents one of fouling its own nest. The “ Daily Telegraph ” expects that Sir Edward Grey’s statement will ■silence impertinent and ignortant cutiC 1 Times ” maintains the belief that the Government should establish a regular blockade. It adds that if the public misunderstand the Foreign Office it is because the public are kept in mischievous ignorance. The “Daily Mail” and “Morning Post ” remain convinced that a largo quantity of goods is going to Germany despite' Sir Edward Grey’s arguments. MR BALFOUfTS SILENCE. newspaper comment. LONDON, January 27. The “ Morning Post ” says that the silence of Mr Balfour is very remark able. The country holds Mr Balfour responsible for any failure to use Ins full powers. debate in commons. PROPOSAL TO MAKE FOOD CONTRABAND. LONDON, January 27. In the House of Commons, Sir Robert Finlay proposed' that food should be made absolute contraband. Lord Robert Cecil, lepljmg m the debate, admitted that the blockade was imperfect, but .ad the complications were gi? at> , Government had'not lost sight of the possibility of a blockade of the Baltic. We were trving what no nation had ever tried before, trying to blockade Germany through neutral was not a case for lug ian Afor great caution and c , irci P i: A It was easy to make mistakes which would turn out so senousl) as to p vent us winning the war. ~ . Mr Shirley Bean’s motion was talked out. TRADE THROUGH HOLLAND IRON IMPORTS. LONDON, January 27. In the House of Lords Lord port said that from the commencement of the war to the end of Wlo wree hundred cargoes of iron ore, amounting to a million and a half tons, Rotterdam. The inference was that it was intended for Germany. The Duke of Devonshire said that the average imports annually in 1911-13 were five and a half million tons, nearly the whole wh k

to Germany. The imports into Holland in 1015 were fioO OfK) tons. Lord Lnnsdowrio resented the suggestion that the Foreign Office and the War Office and Admiralty required waking up. V ~~ ROTTERDAM TO GERMANY. DUTCH-AMERTCAN SERVICE. LONDON, January 27. A Dutoh-Amorican lino is opening a service from Rotterdam to Germany, via the Rhine, in order to carry goods to Germany from America.