ENEMY TRANSPORT ROUTE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16670, 15 October 1917, Page 5

ENEMY TRANSPORT ROUTE.

EMBARGO UPON HOLLAND. ' CONCRETE FOR TRENCH WORK Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Eocd. 5.5 p.m.) LONDON. Oct. 12. Lord Robert Cecil, Under-Secretary to the Foreign Office, commenting upon i the British embargo upon the Dutch ! transmission of German sand, gravel, and : metal through her territory, declared that ; the question was most serious. He had . jast returned from the western front. ! Undoubtedly the Germans were using these materials in vast quantities for the construction of concrete trenches and "pill-boxes." Replying to the Dutch contention that the Germans were using these materials for road making, Lord Robert Cecil emphasised the probability that the Germans were satisfying their civil requirements with materials obtained from Belgium itself, enabling the imported materials to be used for military purposes, this fact justifying the stoppage of cable communication. EFFECT OF RESTRICTIONS. APPREHENSIONS AROUSED. NEW YORK, Oct. 12. The Hague correspondent of the Now York Times states that th 9 cutting-off of all commercial cable communication has caused considerable apprehension. The Dutch are realising that the allies are sincere.