BELGIAN RELIEF SHIPS HELD UP
Received 10.45 p.m. Feb. 5,
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.
Mr Hooster says that fifteen relief commission ships are in or near the war zone. If the service is Jong paralysed, the situation of ten millions in Belgium will be awful to contemplate. The Commission will ask Germany, through the Spanish Ambassador, to open a lane of safety for supply ships. irermany has informed the Belgian Relief Commission that she will no longer respect its ships unless they take a course for Holland, north of the new German war zone. Mr Hooster states that the combined British and German minefields have completely cut off the approaches by the route mentioned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 16892, 6 February 1917, Page 5
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