Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-03-05
ALLIES TO END
GERMAN TRADE
Complete Blockade of Nation Is
DeCreed.
ENJOYS GIVE NOTES TO U. S.
Britain and France Forced to Retail
ate, Notices Assert-DecIare Kaiser
Substitutes IndiscrIminate De-
struction for Regulated Capture.

London, March 3.-Premier Asquith
announced in the house of commons
on Monday that the government had
decided to prevent commodities OF
any kind from reaching Germany or
leaving that country.
This means that no foodstuffs of any
kind will be allowed to reach Ger
many. The embargo will also be ex-
tended to raw materials.
This action was taken by the British
government in retaliation for Ger
many's submarine warfare against
English merchant ships.
England will now try to starve Ger
many into submission. 1t is believed
that the embargo of the British gov
eminent upon foodstuffs and raw ma
terials will increase the activities of
the German submarines in the bread
war" against England. In making the
mOmentOus announcement, Premier
Asquith said:
There is no form of economic pres
sure which we do not consider our
selves entitled to assert under exist
ing conditions"
Premier Asquith, in speaking of Gsr-
many's submarine war, declared:
Germany has taken step without
precedence in organizing a campaign
fpiracy and pillage.
This Is not the time to talk peace.
Those who do SO are the victims of
self-delusion. The allies will never
sheathe the sword till all objects
wherefore they have gone to war have
been achieved"
Washington, March 3-The sub
stance of the British and French notes
Is contained in the following statement
given out by the state department on
Monday:
Germany has declared that the
English channel, the north and west
coasts of France and waters around
the British isles are a war area and
has officially notified that all enemy
ships found in that area will be de-
stroyed and that neutral ships may
be exposed to danger. This is, in eff
feet, claim to the right to torpedo at
sight, without regard to the safety of
the crew or passengers, any merchant
vessel ander any flag. AS 1t Is not
In the power of the German admiralty
to maintain any surface craft in these
waters, this attack can only be deliv-
cred by a submarine agency.
THE law and custom of nations in
regard to attacks on commerce have
always presumed that the first duty
of the captor of a merchant vessel is
to bring it before prize court where
it may be tried, where the registry Of
the capture may be challenged and
where neutrals may recover their car
goes. The sinking of prizes is in itself
an inadequate act to be resorted to
only in extraordinary circumstances.
eff there are passengers on board
the responsibility for discriminating
between neutrals and enemy vessels
and between neutral and enemy cargo,
obviously rests with the attacking
ship, whose duty it is to verify the
status and character OF the vessel
and cargo and to preserve all papers
before sinking or even capturing It,
1T is upon this basis that all pre-
vious discussions of the law Of regu-
lating warfare at sea have proceeded.
A German submarine, however, full
fills none of the obligations; she en-
Joys no local command of the waters
In which she operates; she does not
take her captures within the jurisdic-
ton of a prize court; she carries no
prize crew which she can put on board
prize.
'The German declaration substi-
tutes indiscriminate destruction for
regulated capture. Germany Is adopt
ing these methods against peaceful
traders and noncombatant crews with
the avowed object of preventing COM
modities of all kinds, including food
for the civil population from reach
ing or leaving the British isles or
northern France.
Her opponents are therefore driven
to frame retaliatory measures in or
der in their turn to prevent commod-
tiles of any kind from reaching or
leaving Germany. These measures
will, however, be enforced by the Brit
ish and French governments without
risk to neutral ships or to neutral or
noncom5atant life and in strict observ-
ance of the dictates of humanity The
British and French governments will
therefore hold themselves free to de-
tain and to take into port ships carry
ing goods of presumed enemy destina-
ton, ownership or origin"