"BEST JOKE OF THE WAR."
B.LOCKABS OS> BEHMAN fftjkJMfe A DAILY MAIL YAKJft By Cable—Press Association—eojiyidilH Jiecoived Jan. fcl, V.'.iO ]j.m. T.milki, Jan. 12. A Daily Mail commissioner who hat visited Scandinavia declares that German traders consider the. British blockade the best joke of the war. A vast amount of Scandinavian imports go to Germany by merely changing the labels, and traini and steamers are taxed to the utmost. He saw many vessels, ex America and elsewhere, tranship at Malmo, Raisingborg, and Copenhagen direct, to Germany, The traffic glut is tremendous and Danish traders complain that they cannot handle their own cargoes owing to; the pressure of German-bound goods. The enmmissioner investigated the working of the system of consigning to accredited merchants, and declares that it is useless, and is making Britain a laughing-stock. Of .the importers many are hone*t. Mil goods reach even fifta parties who sell to fiermany. Everyone is a trader im ilic>.-,c Him--, even porter** shopkeeper*, can-hikers, and shopgirl*
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Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1916, Page 5
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163"BEST JOKE OF THE WAR." Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1916, Page 5
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