NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17726, 10 September 1919, Page 4

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENT.

Inquirer."—'lho 14 questions which you Jiavo submitted constitute a soinowuafc lurfjo order, and wo content ourselves with answering tho moro important oi ttlcm. o;> (at* an wu u atvave, not ono German ivonuu was i iol. l>y ori]i*r oi* tho 1 Jriti-li a-uthoril ies tile "war Wo havo not ourselves made any statement to the contrary. Tho execution of Nurso Cavell was not a. breach of international law mid was jjorinds.sil>l« under tho GernNUi military code, but a flagrant violation of laws of luinuuiity was involved in the execution of a woman who \v».s carrying on a work of mercy in an invaded country. Tho destruction of tho Lositania, was in violation of fho jaws of -international warfare, and tho crime was aggravated l>y tho circumstanco that tho steamer earned numbers of women and children as passengers. The armistice spec p/ovided that tho blockado on Germany _ would hn maintained. It was not until tho declaration of peace that the blockade was lifted. It is certain that foodsufl's reached Germany from neutral countries during tho currency of the blockade., but the ouantity would lie- insignificant in proportion to tho requirements of th» country. It has be-; 1 11 stated thn.fc largo numbers, variously estimated, of G-crman children died from tho effects of malnutrition between tho d-ate on. which the armistice was sicrned .and tho date on which tho blockado ce-ased to operate. It is impossible to chock statements of this kind, .of which the obiect. is perfectly pliin, but it ;s to observed th-nt the Allied nations supplied foodstuffs to Germany as far as it wis possible for them to do so during the period of the armistice. General Sir IT. Plummer commanded tho British troops which marched to Cologne.