New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-01
PREDICTS BRITAIN
WILL BE STARVED
Teuton Sees Germany'S
Enemies Crushed by
New Blockade

Washington, Jan. 31.-"If anybody
is going to starve as result of illegal
blockades and interferences with COM
merce it is not going to be the Ger
mans. It's going to be the other fell
low"
That was the statement tonight oil
one in thorough sympathy with Ger
many's latest move, who speaks with
clear understanding of the motives
underlying the actions. Continuing
the speaker said:
"This blockade of England, France
and Italy by submarines is the reply
If Germany to the answer made by
the Allies to the moves for peace made
BY Germany and by President wilson
We regard the door 20 peace as having
been absolutely closed by the Allleu
reply, so we are forced to resort 10
whatever means may be necessary 70
break the blockade by which Great
, Britain is attempting illegally to starVe
the women and children of Germany.
Predicts British VIII StarNe
"Thev have been trying to starve
me- Cor two wears. We still live, but
there is only enough foodstuffs in
Cr.ot Britain 10 run that country for
thirty DAYS before there is absolute
starvation. And this blockade will be
Elective. You will see-not a ship
will get through.
20 ~ moi
TO cut off the arms and munitions ship
ments. Those shipments, we know, are
decreasing, anyhow. But we VIII give
! them taste of their own medicln,e1
on this starvation business. They VIII
no suino for peace in from sixty to
ninety days.
~ am surprised, personally, that
this move was not resorted to some
timo ago. | have been expecting It
ever since the Sussex note. Then we
( insisted that something be done TO
force Great Britain to abandon not
orlv her illegal blockade Of neutral
commerce with Germany, but her in
terfcrence with commerce between
neutrals.
Not an Answer TO Wilson
This cannot be considered as Sc
quel to the move by the President,
either in asking for statement of the
terms Of peace or in his message to the
Senate"
"Would the move have come so
quickly from Germany il the President
had not addressed his peace note to the
powers. nor addressed the Senate" he
was asked.
There are too many ifs in that
question" replied he, "but the proper
way to view this statement is that IL
is an answer to the naughty answer Of
the Allies to the peace proposals. Their
answer showed that nothing but the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Germany, Austria,
Bulgaria and Turkey would satisfy the
Allies"
Germany Had Denied Plan
For weeks inspired, authoritative and
almost semi-official statements have
been coming from Berlin indicating an
absolute decision not to resume unre-
stricted submarine warfare. The com
pletc agreement of the Emperor, Chan
/ cellor Won Bethmann-Hollweg, General
Won Hindenburg and General Won Lu-
dendorff. the four men in whose hands
Germany's destiny lies, has been men
toned frequently in dispatches passing
the censor.
information received only to-day,
however, shows that a very careful
campaign for the full use of sea forces
has been under way recentely. IL has
been urged as essential TO Germany
existence, and il was represented that
it would be impossible now for Presi-
dent Wilson to get the American peo'
/ pie behind him in declaration of war.