Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-06
ENGLAND IS SARCASTIC,
BUT V|S|BLY AC|TATEO
Germany's Paper Blockade" Of Is.
land Has Stirred Country
to Its Depths.
OvEHsHADowS OTHER NEWS
Britain Determined That Kaiser's
Act Of Piracy" Will Not Induce
IL TO Scatter and Weaken Its Fleet
Berlin Is Delighted.

! IL 10 Scatter and Weaken It's Fleet
Berlin Is Delighted.
LONDON, February S.-Although re-
| fcrring sarcastically to Germany's
threat to bottle UP the British Isles by
means of submarines as a paper
blockade" England is stirred to-day
by this latest development in the ma
rine situation as she seldom has been
since the wars outbreak. The press
unanimously suhordinates all other
war news TO give prominence TO Berlin
dispatches. while the Foreign Office
statement, following quickly tho pub
LEGATION OF the German decree, indicates
the government authorities take the
German threat as one requiring a
| prompt countcrstrokc. AS the state
mcnt says. the authorities arc 'consid-
/ ering more stringent measures against
German trade" Tho ministers are
treating the subject as OF particular
I urgency.
The German press halls the newly
announced naval policy with great sat
isfaction. Comments received In Lon
| don indicate the newspapers consider
sh'ncient the warning to neutral ships
mat the waters surrounding the Brit
ish Isles are TO he considered mill
thrE area after February IS. and that
ships attempting passage outside of
the channels specified do 80 ut their
own risk. Some English newspapers
declare the German announcement
should in the end benefit England in
that II rightfully entities tho British
government to declare contrahand all
foodstuffs destined for Germany.
CANNOT RE INDUCED
TO SCATTER IT'S FLEET
The pompous decree threat cniny
sudden death to all who venture to
I approach the British coasts adds moth
ing 10 what our enemy has done or
/ has attempted 10 do since the begin :
ming of the war" says the Westminster
Gazette to-day, commenting on the an
nouncement OF the German admiralty
whlch declares the seas around Great
Britain to be n military area. The
Westminster Gazette generally reflects
the views If the British Cabinet
The same effort for the past i've
months. the paper continues. has
heen made continuously against our
( warShips and transports. with results
mat nave been almost nil From IN.
. military point of view. If the Germans
/ turn from legitimate war TO the threat
I OF piracy. 1t Is merely because in leri,i.
/ mate war they hitherto have Ind no
success The use OF submarines
. against British merchantmen Will no
. more induce the government to scatter
inc ice; for supposed security agains,
| these sea raiders than did German
mines and Zeppelins. or the raids on
/ Unattended coast towns"
The Westminster Gazette infers from
! the German. announcement that tho
/ German people are suffering more from
. the pressure OF our sea power than ".
hitherto have realized"
The Standard says the Germans are
copying the announcement by the Drit
( 'sh admiralty In October, Including III.
, North Sea III the military area. bur
I ADDS there is one feature which Tho
Germans are unable to initiate.
We gave incoming neutral vessels
sailing directions which passed then,
! up Inc east coast OF England "a IN.
FARCE Islands. whence a safe route uas
given them 10 the southern promoutory
( OF Norway" the Standard continues
Z our imithtors can only 20 SO far as
TO say That neutrals may skirt round
lhe faroe Islands. then down the co,st
by the Danish and Norwegian shor.s
9"ch voyage is already lfapossibIe
under the British declaration Of oc.
tober last"