STRANGULATING BLOCKADE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16129, 18 January 1916, Page 6

STRANGULATING BLOCKADE

KEEN AMERICAN INTEREST. GERMAN HONESTY DOUBTED. 'Received January 18, 1-.33 a.m.) London, January IT. The Times' Washington correspondent says tho news tint Britain at last really means to institute a strangulating blockade has been received with the greatest interest. American correspondents on the Continent agree that- wholesale smuggling of food, rubber, and fats from Denmark and Holland into Uermany is going on. America is speculating whether Germany is playing fair with the enormous supplies sent for the relief of the Belgians.

SARCASTIC GERMAN PRESS. UNBREAKABLE STRENGTH. (Received January IS, 12 35 a m.) London, January 17. The German press makes sarcastic reference to the speech in the House of Commons of Mr. Waiter Hunciman. President of the Board of Trade, on the motion moved by Mr. William Hewins, Unionist member for Hereford, urging the advisability of immediately consulting the Dominions with a view to bringing the Empire's whole, economic strength against, the .enemy, in co-operation with Britain's allies. The Cologne Gazette says it is equally impossible to break the economic or military strength of Germany, which can held out as long as coal and iron can be won and the soil is productive. IMPORTS FOR NEUTRALS. LORD SYDENHAM'S SCHEME. London, January 16. Lord Sydenham, in an interview, said lie favoured allowing neutrals to receive normal imports, plus a small percentage, then stretching a complete chain against goods ovfr the allowance, on the presumption that they were intended for the enemy.