Der Deutsche correspondent. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1841-1918, 1915-02-04

warfare. Inc uncertainty OF the Std-
tus of Conditional contraband" is
doing untold harm to a number Of
people in these states and is largely
responsible for the fearful increase
in unemployment.
There are about $4,000 miles Of
cables in the world, more than
100000 Of which are British owned
and controlled. Only $1,000 miles
were German, all of which have been
cut The mails are irregular. sailing
dates few, and even the mails Of the
United States have been tampered
with In consequence there is an
impossibility for the shippers Of this
country to get a clear idea of the
state of the markets in Germany,
Austria and the neutral states Of
Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway,
Italy and Switzerland. No reliable
news gets through, no orders can be
taken, no remittances can be made,
and the trade even in innocent goods
that have nothing to do with the war
is seriously crippled.
Great Britain has fortified the sea
by her possession Of any number OF
islands and fortresses on foreign
soil She commands the Mediter-
ranean and it's cables by the fort
resses of Gibraltar Con Spanish
ground) and of Malta (Which she
occupied in defiance of the peace Of
Rastadt, 18O5). She has cut the
German cable near the Azores Ga
Portuguese possession). She blocks
the Red sea by violating the guaran-
teed neutrality of the Suez canal
and the German sea by her dOmina-
tion of the English channel. She
has o fringe of islands all around
the United States, with Bermuda,
jamaica. Barbados, Trinidad and
British Guiana, not to forget HalifaX
and Vancouver, and controls the
entrance to the Panama canal by
these islands and the passage
through the strait of Magellan into
the Pacific by her command Of the
Falkland islands She docs the same
in the Pacific and on the China coast
by Weihaiwei, Shanghai and Hong
kong and all around Africa by tho
occupation OF Zanzibar, Capetown,
St. Helena and Lagos So not q
word Of uncensored news, even re-
garding markets and market condi-
tions. can get through. and the
United States is as thoroughly isol-
moon.
And this system not only disturbs
the United States, but all tho neu-
trails, especially those who, without
great natural resources, draw q great
deal Of their national sustenanco
from their sea traffic So tho Sean
dinavians probably suffer as much
as any belligerent country.
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things is that it viii not be confined
to the time of war; It must be ex-
pected that the consequences win
reach far into the time when the
business shall have been re-estab-
lished, because if o trade is once
dislOcated and q customer lost ii is
hard to get him back again IL the
source Of supply is cut Off for any
considerable time the customer viii
provide himself from some other
source or try to produce tho needed
article himself, thereby becoming in
dependent, as Germany is now forced
to do. If she cannot get American
wheat she must cat rye. If she cam
not get lumber she must use steol or
cement or some other substance. II.
she cannot get copper She must hclp
herself with alloys OF cheaper metals.
If she cannot get cotton she must so
back to the use Of fax. There won't
be patch of Germany which is cap
able OF bearing anything that will
not be cultivated this year in order
to make her Independent. If she
does not like it ahe has nevertheless
got to continue doing It in order not
to lose tho Investment, the use OF
those substances.
We did not want this war. We
tried our best to keep it localized be-
tween Austria and Sorvia. We Off
cred to Great Britain the neutrality
OF Belgium and the protection of the
French coast against German attack
If she would stay out. Both of these
proposals have been turned down BY
Sir Edward Grey. The british White
Book contains documentary proof.