N December 5, the embargo which Britain laid on carriage by neutral ships of goods of German origin came into force.
Churchill said of it, on December 6, "This measure was taken in the late war.....Ņo serious inconvenience need be caused to neutrals.
They have only to avoid carrying tainted goods in their ships." Some of the effects of a "two-way blockade" are described below, says E. B. Bowley, late R.N., in the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."
In many quarters one hears the comment, "What with magnetic mines, England's retaliation and the protests of neutrals, the naval war is taking on a new aspect." New, perhaps, but not wholly novel.
In 1914 Germany sowed mine fields in the high seas immediately the Great War broke out. England, in October, replied: but; unlike Germany, she gave the neutrals instructions how to avoid- the danger areas. In the' same way the French dealt with the Adriatic, By November it was established that the enemy, using vessels under neutral flags, had: "scattered mines indiscriminately on the open sea on the main trade route from America to Liverpool via the North of Ireland."
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