A TERRIBLE PLOT.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 48, 22 June 1917, Page 5

A TERRIBLE PLOT.

TATE IN STORE FOR BRITAIN. By an indiscretion which the Kaiser's Government will no boubt find unpardonable, a German journalist has betrayed the secret aims of the submarine blockade. It is that unfailing organ of frightfulness, 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 TJ-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 the common necessities of life. Let not that fact, however, occasion any misgivings among the Germans as to the success of our blockade. Let 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 the ordinary everyday fare, are feeling the pinch precisely in the scarcity of these indulgences, in the same ratio as we should feel the scarcity of bread and potatoes. “Not being hardened to economy, the English, like spoilt children, who have been deprived of their sweet-, meats, 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 where 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 so forth will prove the rock on which further English resistance will split into pieces. "It is the jamless English soldier and sailor, the young English miss who finds no bonbons to chew, who will be the peacemakers."