THE BLOCKADE.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14409, 10 May 1917, Page 1

THE BLOCKADE.

GERMAN PURCHASES FROM

NEUTRALS.

FRENCH WRITER'S DEMAND.

(Australian and N.Z. Cablo Association)

} Paris, May 8. M. Jean Herbette, writing in the "Echo de Paris," insists on the urgent necessity for tightening the blockade, quoting statistics from a confidential report showing enormous increases of exports of foodstuffs from Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Holland to Germany in 1916, compared with 1913. Germany's neighbour's must be told to either cease supplying food to Germany or cease purchasing goods abroad. The United States can alter the whole aspect of war by putting forward demands in accord with the European Allies.