The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-02-16
WILL ATTEMPT TO STOP
GERMANY'S FOOD SUPPLY

never before practiced by civilized
power So iar we have not attempt
ed to step the Importation of food.
We tave not prevented neutral ships
from trading directly with German
ports. We have allowed German ex-
ports in neutral ships to pass un-
challenged. But the time is near
when the enjoyment of these immuni-
ties by state which iG matter of
deliberate policy has placed herself
outside of international obligations
must be reconsidered. A further de-
claration In part of the allied gov
ernments will be made, which will
have the effect of applying for the first
time the full force of naval pressure
on the enemy.
1T must not be supposed that be-
cause the attack Is extraordinarily
good reply cannot be made. Losses
no doubt will be incurred, but | be-
lieve no vital injury can be done. IL
merchant shippers act in the spirit
or the captain of the Laertes, and OBJ
serVi, certain precautions, losses will
be confined within manageable limits.
even at the outset, when the enemy
naturally will make his maximum ef-
forts Our reply will perhaps be not
ineffective.
Germany cannot be allowed to
adopt a system of open piracy and
murder. There is good reason for
believing that the economic pressure
OF the navy is beginning to be felt in
Germany"
During the last three months, he
said. there had been 5000 sailings and
4,465 arrivals at ports of the United
Kingdom. Only 10 of these vessels
had been sunk by Germany. and OF
those only four were destroyed by
aboye-the-water craft. The navy had
chartered one-fifth Of the British
mercantile marine for the purpose OF
supplying food. fuel and ammunition
10 the fleet and the troops in the
field.
Mr.. Ghurchilf gave an interesting
review of the naval situation. He said
etiiciepcy wits the keynote Of the adj.
mira pf0graEn, and That 1T the
outbreak of war the supplies OF am.
munition. men and oil were complete.
Every ship In the navy fit for service.
az well as new ships being built for
foreign governments and armed mer-
chantmen, had been fully manned.
I'm fact the German army waa NO
more fit for an attempted wa Gu
gigantic scale than was the British
fleet for national defense" he said;
After six months of war, with new
dangers and difficulties coming into
view, We have every right to he con-
tent with the results of our labors In
making provision for the navy.
Only two small cruisers and two
armed merchantmen remain of all the
German preparations to attack our
trade routes, and these are In hiding"
During the six months of the war
MIR. Churchill said,l Great Britain's
total losses at sea, including all ships
except trawlers. amounted to only 63.
:, referring to Vice Admiral Jeili-
Goes command of the sea "as silent,
unsleeping and as yet unchallenged,. !.
Mr.. Churchill said the admiralty had
moved men at home and abroad, In
cluding Belgian and French troop5
and wounded, to the number OF l.
100000. without an accident or the
loss of a life.
Mr.. Churchill said the recent action
IN the North Sea had shown that ..the.
navy Is sound as a bell, all through"
The new 15-inch gun of the navy,
he said. was equal In quality to the
!S.5 inch gun and vastly more power
ful and destructive.
Mr. Churchill placed the nayy,s
losses during tine war At $500 officers
and men, most of whom were killed by
submarines. The Germans. he said
had lost q like number. chiefly by
gun fire. The British had taken pris-
oners SS German naval officers and
9a4 men, There were no British
naval prisoners OF war;
referring to the suggestion which
has been made that conrt martial
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