NORTH SEA BLOCKADE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2355, 11 January 1915, Page 6

NORTH SEA BLOCKADE

GERMAN fSEA/MAGNATE'S Admission . Y ' . Amsterdam, January 8..; Herrßallm, the well-known shipowner . and director of the Hamburg-Amorika Lino, writing to the "Frankfurter Zeitung," admits that Britain has brought Germany's overßQatrade to a standstill, the North Sea., being easily blockaded.; ;• 'England's piratical pressure upon Scan- ; dinavia and Holland 'would have been i impossible if Germany • had a proper naval,base. She must in future seek a base-.beyond the North Sea. area. Herr ; 'Ballin, in November, said': "England is i already beaten, because she has hidden .her fleet." v . . j THE RAID ON CUXHAVEN. ; GERMAN. REPORT ON, RESULTS. London, January 8. i \ • German newspapers declare that tho touxhaven raid was a failure, and that all the British bomb's missed their mark. '.The naval correspondent of "Tho Times," commenting on the heavy death rolls at sea, recommends that a. Red ■ Cross ship, liberally supplied with boats, should / accompany the:fleets. USE FOR CAPTURED CERMAN ''SHIPS.:. - -| PROPOSAL TO CHARTER, i London, January 8. British shipowners seek 1 to charter '.German steamers' detained' at British i ; ■ ■' ports during the war, these to be ex-! ' changeable; for ~'captured' British' ships after tho'war.: . The Government is considering - the matter. —("Times") .and Sydney "Sun" Services.) TEA AND COCOA. j-.'"" I' -' ! "i ' " ' . ! ''EXPORT PROHIBITION RELAXED. ! : . London; January 8. Trie prohibition on the export of tea i■. las been removed. . Tho export of cocoa to certain Euro- : . [{Jean countries is prohibited. . FRENCH WAR LOAN. v {ERBASURY. BILLS ON ISSUE IN • ; ■ ENGLAND. . : , London, January 8. • Tho Bank of England, with the Imperial approval, jeceives ' for ten million sterling of . '§ per cent. French Treasury bills, : f'-'i' 1 - ~ ' DEAR MEAT. IN AUSTRALIA. i IFRVST OPERATIONS ALLEGED. Sydney, January 9. The Commission opens the inquiry : nto the price of meat on January 18. i J Mr. Sharp, Federal member for Oxi jliejr, Queensland, declares tihat tae hieh : prices are due to the operations of the | ; Meat Trust in- Queensland, and insists j. i that only Federal action is capable of •Sealing with the matter. i j (Rec. January 11, : 0.5 a.m.) t ] : Sydney, January 10. j ; j 'A! statement issued by the Moat InL. Idustries Board,, which, after dealing | /■with, the causes, leading to the advance in meat, including the augmented popuv * 'lation, the increasing areas devoted to ; ffthe wheat-growing,'arid-dairying,. the i I drought, and the war demands, pre- : i diets a. return to normal conditions, but I [adds that. with a meat-hungry world . iiand Australia becoming one or the chief V iisources of. supply, cheap meat will be- ■ lcome;a thing, of the. past. . : r 'As a result of the extreme prices the ; . [butchers .report decline in the , Remand for meat. ' • HORSEFLESH FOR EXPORT. ! : SUGGESTION BY AUSTRALIAN !r ■' MERCHANT..; L Sydney, January .9. ■ The managing director of the firm of (Pitt and Son, Mr. Badgery, has written ! . ito tho Comptroller o£ Customs asking if ■; i (horseflesh, is exportable. He points out I;.:-, the great / demand of meat, for war lieeds, and Europe's Btarvinn thousands. ; ,He says horseflesh is . a highly appreciI < ated food on the Continent. -The horse ! is a clean animal, and objection to utilj Hsing it as food could only he senti--mental. A client of'the firm had stated i \ that a lot of nondescript horses of little ; (value for work, but very fat, would be >a treat for starving thousands on the : '.lother side. - i /,.•_• (Roe. January 11, 0.5 a.m.) : 1 Sydney, January 11. i V The Minister, for Customs has rej-, jected a proposal to allow the export j 'of horseflesh, adding that tho Departi. ! mental refusal was absolutely definite- ! i> The ■ Government lias allowed the rei Veumption of the exportation of coal to ! i.Java for Government railway purposes, j'under a. strict bond.