Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-18
BLOCKADE ON FOOD
HELD TO Be JOKE
Effort to Prevent Importation
of Supplies by Germany Is
Termed a Failure.
BALTIC PORT OF LUBECK
HUMMING WITH ACTIVITY
Trainloads of Foodstuffs From
! Denmark and Shiploads From
Sweden Reported Arriving.
Copyright, 1915, by Herbert Corey J

Copyright. 1915, by Herbert Corey)
That food blockade which England in
stituted against Germany is. in my hum
Bile opinion, one of the few jokes of this
| war. Shortly before 1 left Germany 1
! visited the three cities of the Hanseatic
| League. 1t was made plain to me that
Hamburg has no trade left that is worth
] mentioning. This city has sustained
unusually close relations with America,
F.; but it's merchants are perhaps more Bit
ter against Americans than in any other
city in Germany. Several of them have
paid good money for advertising space
! in the Hamburg papers in which to make
their state of mind known. Bremen has
given herself over to the manufacture of
war materials. But Lubbock is in the
| midst of a boom. She is doing more
| trade today than she has for ten years
past.
! Unless appearances in Lubbock are
overwhelmingly deceptive. Germany will
month to come. Not onyy are it's ware
| houses full of things to eat-and Luz
| becks business men told US these stores
are not to be touched before next fall
but her harbor is full of ships from Den.
mark and Sweden. Perhaps they were
not laden with corn and flour. But it is
certain that huge sacks of some sort
were going in and out of them. The
sacks going in were filed with the COM
mercial chemicals in which Germany
does such thriving business.
What are the sacks which are being
| taken from these ships filled with?' We
| asked.
Food" they told us.
Lubbock Business Men Happy.
Lubbock is the great Baltic port of Ger
many. Hamburg and Bremen are the
great North sea ports. The English
blockade has certainly been effective
against them, in spite of half-hearted
| efforts to convince US to the contrary.
| The manager of the Chamber of Com
merce in Hamburg was entirely frank
about it. In his little speech. of well
| come he admitted that business did not
exist. Bremen seemed bit more chip
per. They limited that blockade runners
got in now and then-though not often.
But in Lubbock the business men met us
misunderstanding metaphorically. They
were hannv as could be.
Lubbock" they said, lis doing bet
| ter trade than she has for years"
| AS our train entered Lubbock it passed
a long train of cattle cars on the side
track. Each car was filled with short
| horned beeves. fat and frisky for the
| killing. Each car was likewise marked
on the side as the property of the Dan
| ism STATE railway. Inc blockade against
the admission Of food to Germany OBJ
| viously does not interest Denmark's
| railway men. Our first stop in Lubbock
was at the cold storage plant. 1t was
for this plant that the trainload of
beeves was destined. Irving S. Weber.
| who has managed plants for various
Chicago packers, is the manager He
led US through floor after floor filled
with frozen carcasses of beef and NUT
ton and hogs. He tapped on the meat
with his wooden hammer until it rang.
Fine condition. said he, with pro-