THE PAPER BLOCKADE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume LXVIII, Issue 14206, 8 February 1915, Page 6

THE PAPER BLOCKADE.

Pr«s» Association—Electri- 'IVWraph—Copvrieht LONDON, Saturday. Tho Times, in a leader, says that the announcement of a Gormiin blockade is regarded ia Britain as a moro outburst of temper and briivado, and is a confession of strai* and failure, rather than a token of confidence. Tho determination, so far as it was intended to frigh-' ton American shippers aiid coerce Ameriaan opinio* into subscribing to the Yiow that the Germans aro too terriblo tQ bo has failed, like all other GermaW efforts fc<rg»Sg» fcho cha ™ctor of America* people.

' T*9 Timea' naval -- rrespo ndont says j that tho Ibreat will be generally received with derision. "Thoso warnings, addrcled to tho neutrals and ourselves, c - ho - 7 V" aIM intended for home consumpaoi, and to put heart into the GcrmM people For tho last tMee months ClWian aubmtirltnitf lnivo wan dored into fcb{y Channel, and along our ! oo*st3, lateat on the *ory business that "ifs now foreshadowed. They have to secure a single transport, or to interfere ia any way with, ourselves »_'nd the Allies. The announcement "really amounts to » confession that tho submarines h*Ye failed to accomplish their

misaiom.'* * Tho -rice-chairman of the , Cunard line has declared that Germany could not hope to blockade Britain unless she possessed one hundred times moro submarines than sho now possesses.