A TERRIBLE PLOT

New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9690, 19 June 1917, Page 2

A TERRIBLE PLOT

FATE IN STORE FOR BRITAIN. By an indiscretion which the Kaiser’s Government will no doubt find unpardonable, a German, journalist has betrayed the secret aims of the submarine blockade. It is that unfailing organ of frigLcfulness, the “Hamburg Nachrichten,” that betrays this terrible plot for our undoing:— “There can be no doubt that the effects of the frightful encircling manoeuvres of our .U-boats round the coasts of Britain are making themselves acutely felt. "It is not that they, are starving over yonder, or that they are yet being deprived of any of tho common necessities of life. Let not that fact, However, occasion any misgivings among the Germans as to the success of our blockade. Lot us remember that in England they have at all times attached far greater importance than is done in Germany to eating and drinking, and that England was ever the most plentifully provided of all countries with luxuries of all kinds. "The result has been that the English people, long accustomed to regard as necessities innumerable dainties which in Germany do not form part of tiie ordinary everyday fare, are feeling the pinch precisely in the scarcity of these indulgences, in the same ratio as wo should feel the scarcity of bread and potatoes. “Not being hardened to economy, the English, like spoilt children, who have been deprived of their sweetmeats, will grow more and more Unruly, until, in desperation their Government will, in spite of all the boastful. talk, .grasp .at,the slightest opportunity to make peace. ‘ , "This is whore the-strength lies of our U-boat weapon. We may depend upon it that the time is not so distant when the absence of cakes, chocolates, jams, and go forth will prove the rock on which further English resistance will split into nieces. “It is the jamlesa English soldier and sailor, tho young English miss who finds no bonbons to chew, who will he the peacemakers.”