BRITISH SHIPOWNERS COOL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2390, 20 February 1915, Page 7

BRITISH SHIPOWNERS COOL

SHIPPING I CHANNEL . NORMAL TIE FOOD PINCH IN GERMANY NOVEL EFFORT TO 'RESTRICT FOOD CONSUMPTION . GERMANY'S REPLY TO-AMERICA A PUERILE EFFORT , AT,TIES CAPTURE IMPORTANT V 'POSITIONS

Germany's Note to America on the subject of blockade takes a prominent place in to-day's war news. It is a document in which protests, threats, and laboured explanations are blended in a queer jumble of inconsistencies. At the same time, it is made perfectly clear that Germany proposes to embark, upon a career of common piracy and murder in revenge for the- legitimate blockade imposed by Britain on her oversea trade; The Note is regarded as a desperate attempt to enlist American aid in an effort to limit the severity of the British blockade, but meantime it is reported that anti-American sentiments are steadily gaining ground in Germany, and the position has already become so .acute that a number of Americans have left the country, and • others are contemplating departure. As showing the extent to which die blookade has already made itself felt in Germany, it is stated that the Government, in order to limit food consumption, intends to compel five million Germans of independent means, but ineligible for military service, to take up their residence in neutral countries until the war is over. A dispatch from the Australian official correspondent in Egypt shows that the Turks in their recent attack on the Suez Canal brought thirty thousand,men. to a point thirty miles east of that waterway. The nearest Turks are now ' sixty miles distant from the Canal. Further Allied successes are reported in France, and Flanders. Progress bas been made at many points, and attempts by .the Germans to regain ground recently lost by tiem have been repulsed with heavy loss. - The Russian strategic retirement from the East Prussian frontier continues, and the Germans claim that they ha,ve captured 64,000 'prisoners. '. In Galicia, along the Carpathians, the Russians have repulsed a series of attacks with heavy loss to tho enemy, but messages'concerning the fighting in Bukowina, at the eastern end of Galicia, are somewhat conflicting. Brigadier-General R. H. Davies', 0.8., has been promoted to the rank of Major-General. - ''He is the first New Zealander to attain that rank: