A TERRIBLE PLOT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 145862, 22 June 1917, Page 5

A TERRIBLE PLOT.

FATE IN STORE FOR BRITAIN. UNCONSCIOUS GERMAN HUMOUR. By an indiscretion which the Kaiser’s Government will no doubt find unpardonable, a German journalist lias betrayed the secret aims of the submarine blockade. . It is that unfailing organ of Ingntfulnoss, the Hamburg Nachnchten, that betrays this terrible plot for our undoing:— . ‘‘There can be no doubt that the effects of tho frightful encircling manoeuvres of our U-boats round the coasts of Britain are making themselves acutely felt. *Tt is not that they are starving over yonder, or that they are yet being deprived of any of tho common necessities of life. Lot not that tact, however, occasion any misgivings among the Germans as to tho 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 tho English people, long accustomed to regard as necessities innumerable dainties which in Germany do not form of the ordinary everyday fare, are feeling the pinch precisely in the scarcity of these indulgences, in the same ratio as 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, thoir Government will, in spite of all the boastful talk, grasp at the slightest opportunity to make peace. “This is whore the strength lies qf 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 jamiess English soldier and sailor, tho young English miss who finds no bonbons to chew, who will-bo the peacemakers.”