Nothing is more difficult for us in London than to estimate the exact measure of importance which is attached in the various parts of the British Empire to events which are happening at home. You may have thought that the " Blockade of which you have heard so. much has caused considerable perturbation and been attended with considerable success. Nothing is further from the truth. It is quite correct that every day one or two little steamers have been sunk by submarines, but the net result is that in the first week seven stean: ers have been torpedoed of about 18,000 tons in all, and that another small one has been sunk by am of course, insignificant: indeed there effect at all. No fewer than 708
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