TELEGRAPHIC AND POSTAL COMMUNICATION.

Marlborough Express, Volume LII, Issue 285, 20 November 1918, Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC AND POSTAL COMMUNICATION.

PROTEST AGAINST THE

BLOCKIADE.

• fAv. nvfl N. 7. Assn.. arid Renter.) (Received Nov. • 20,. 9:45 a.mV) ' . LONDON, Nov. 19. In the German protest against the • Allies' armistice conditions they ,• request freedom of telegraphic, telephonic, and postal traffic in occupieS -territories with' the right hank of the • Rhine and neitirals; . permission to • bring food and fodder from the left1 to the right bank of the Rhine; that; . -the old frontier.<of the empire, inelufl-* • ing Luxemburg,-shall be regarded as a ■ • ■Oustoms- boundary, dues to be leviable by German officials on behalf of the empire; and that German prohibition regardip/g export, transit, and- import shall be handled by German officials. The message declares most emphatically that the surrender of-5000 ■ locomotives and 'fSO^OOO waggons . .makes k; impossible to supply the towns with food, even for, a week. •The whole of the -empire will be stricken with hunger, Finally, the protest says that the ■continuatrcin of the blockade, especially in the East, renders impossible iron and other transport from the :north for German industries, also the lack of German ccrtil for Scan-.-dinavia is bringing . dependant • German industries to a standstill -.and- is also paralysing the "North Sea nxid Baltic fisheries. •Tho Gorman representatives at the iSpai wero instructed to disc-ass those argent wishes -with Allied representatives, but were unsuccessful, 'because •the Allied representatives hail not ,'Jull powers.