Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-11-03

man harbors. all imports through
neutral countries, and even the inn
port of the products of neutral coun-
tries into Germany.
The trump card was the proclama-
ton of the North Sea as a WAR
Zone" on November 2, 1914. The
northern approaches to the North
Sea were thereby completely cut off.
and the neutral trading vessels were
compelled to go through the Channel,
close to the English coast, and could
then only proceed in one direction,
right across the North Sea And yet
at the beginning Of the war England
he'd declared that she would in PR
ciple accept the convention of the
Declaration of London as her stand
ard of action. Her attitude in the
years before the war was also quite
different.
Blockade "UnIawful."
With the declaration of a war zone
she had allowed it to be understood
that she would no longer consider
herself bound by the regulations of
cruiser warfare as laid downs by the
Prize Courts, and also that she con-
sidered herself justified in the adop-
ton of violent measures against traf-
fic in the war zone. Germany was
therefore blockaded, although there
was no lawful blockade. The only
reason why a true blockade was in
effective, according to the rules of
naval warfare, was that England was
powerless to hinder traffic in the
Baltic.
The German declaration of a war
EnhrnDrU 4 =,
similar measure to the English pre-
cedent, gave England an excuse for
further severity in the economic war
against the Central Powers. In the
famous order in council of March II,
1915, she declared her intention of
selling all ships entering or leaving
Germany. All goods intended for
Germany, or exported from there, as
We'll as all goods in German owner
ship, or of German origin, even if
the property of neutrals, could
henceforth be taken from neutral
ships.
"Mlght Before Right
This was another unexampled in
stance of putting might before right.
England justified herself by declar-
ing this procedure to be an act of
reprisal against the submarine war
fare commenced in February, 1915.
This defence fell to the ground when
Germany, after the Sussex case, for
mally renowned submarine warfare
Had England acted in accordance
with her declarations, she would
have raised the so-called blockade,
now that the reason for retaliation
had lapsed. But she never thought
of such a thing. The blockade went
on as before.
BY order of council of June Z,
1915, England finally abandoned the
Declaration of London. In this way
those principles. which. despite re-
peated assurances. no one had at
tempted TO maintain. were formally
denounced. The violation of inter-
national law was to be made legal
and valid.
We in the East also felt the effects
Of England's continued violation of
the international law. In the long
run 1t was bound to help the cause
of the Entente, as the United states, |
both before and after her entry into |
the war had given her sanction, and |
the neutrals of Europe were in Eng |
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How critical was the situation IN I
the Russian front in the summer of |
1915, when Brussloff conducted his
brilliant campaign, is shown by IIu-
dendorff tomorrow He bluntly
shows that Germans had to be rushed !
TO save the remnants of the Aus
TRANS thinning their own lines to a I
dangerous degree Only by the bar
est margin did the Germanic powers
in the East escape complete disaster. /
FINALLY the Austrians appealed tol
him to find way to save the stu
alton and gave him authority toI
change the disposition and training of
some of their troops.