The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, January 20, 1916. THE NAVAL BLOCKADE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1499, 20 January 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, January 20, 1916. THE NAVAL BLOCKADE.

AT last Great Britain is waking up to the fact that half-measures won’t do in connection with the blockade against Germany, who has been receiving ample supplies Irom neutrals. She is about to apply the strangle-hold, despite the smug-phrased and hypocritical protests of neutrals. The London Sunday Times says that the Navy had a particularly trying time in December owing to gales. The warships brought in hundreds of ships to port, and it'was heartbreaking to receive instructions to release them, as the great majority of the vessels were carrying supplies to neutrals, which Lord Lansdowne admits find their way to Germany. Xfie Morning Post’s Washington correspondent writes : The latest statistics prove how the blockade of Germany has been nullified by the failure of the Foreign Office to grasp the situation. American exports of wheat sent to Germany during the first ten months of 1915 amounted to 15.000 bushels, as compared with 12,000,000 bushels in the corresponding period of 1913. The exports to the Netherlands and Scandinavia rose from 19,000,000 in 1913 to 50,000,000 in 1915. Germany in 1913 took 6,000,000 bushels of maize direct, as compared with 15,000 beshels in 1915Neutrals’ importations increased from 14,750,000 to 28,950,000. There were similarly marked increases in bacon and other commodities. Germany’s cotton imports were 17,000 bales in 1913, as against 174,000 bales in xgiSThe neutrals’ imports rose from 53.000 to 1,100,000 in 1915.