The Oskaloosa herald., 1915-03-04
BRITISH EMBARGO
ON FOOD IN EJECT
Government Confident Of Sue
ceSsfuI Blockade on Germany.
WARSHIPs ARE ALL PLACED
Great Britain Delayed Announcing
It's Policy Of Reprisals Against
Kaiser to Change Location
Of BattIeshiPs.
Rx HERBERT TEMPLE.

BY HERBERT TEMPLE.
International News Service Correspondent
London, March S.--England's embar
90 upon food and raw materials des
tined for Germany is in full effect anc
the British government is confident
that il will be able to blockade the
German coast successfully.
1t is learned that the delay of Great
Britain In announcing its policy of re
prizals against Germany was due tc
changes made necessary IN the location
of English warships in order to shut
vessels off from the German coast
These were completed Saturday, and
on Sunday a full report of the new dis
position of the British ships was trans
mitted by the admiralty to Premier AS
Quith. His announcement of the EN-
barge came the next day.
Action Approved by Press.
The action of the government is
hailed with jubilation by the London
press, which has been impatiently de
tmanding the "strangulation OF Ger
many" ever since that country opened
its submarine warfare. While it is ad
united that protests from neutral coun
tries probably win follow the embar'
go proclamation, the various naval ex'
Iperts on the newspapers here are
united in declaring that the precedent
set In the American Civil war is suffi'
Client to justify the blockade. On this
point the Daily Mail says:
THE allies will, in fact observe all
the rules laid down by the United
States courts in the blockade of the
southern coasts during the Civil war,
and they will take every possible steps
to avoid wanton injury to neutrals.
They decline to be bound by the net.
work of legal subtleties for which Ger
many has shown not the slightest re-
gard, but they will observe the great
and fundamental principles Of interna.
tional law.
1 THUS, at least, after seven months
respite, the silent pressure of sea
power is to be applied to Germany in
earnest ......
"of the capacity of the allies to exert
such pressure not the slightest doubt
need be felt at all. The fact that it
has been possible to detach large
force Of battleships. including the new
wonderful superdreadnaught Queen
Elizabeth, to the far of Dardanelles is
in itself proof that our margin of force
is abundant"
The most radical proposition is put
forth by the Morning Post, which advo.
Gates the abolition of the prize claims
committee. 1t says:
Neutral countries will, of course,
complain. Neutrals have always com.
planned in war time since the begin.
ming Of time, but no neutral has ever
succeeded in forcing the sea power OF
England to relax it's grip. 1t is prob.
able that neutrals, when treated with
complete courtesy and respect by
Great Britain, France, Russia and
Japan will, on their side, frankly recog,
nize their. position and continue to en-.
dure these inconvenience which we
all deplore, but which are nat, after all,
the greatest of the misfortunes which
aflict the groaning world"
"Policy of Reason"
According to the Times, Great
present hostile move to isolate
Germany and Austria from the balance
of the world was based upon the pol
icy of reason" 1t says, in part:
1--WE base our policy upon reason.
nnzauou EpnEa and iuStfre and in car
rying 1t out we shall observe the rules
of honesty and the precepts of human.
ity. That is Englands answer to the
German Blockade device utterly
unreconciIable with all the principles
by which real blockades are regulated
and subject to which they are alone
allowed"
The Daily Telegraph predicts that
Germany will speedily be crushed, now
that England has decided to shut Oh
her supplies from the outside world.