The existence of this geographical and legally covered way has been the greatest disadvantage which we have suffered, and the. greatest. advantage which Germany has possessinher efforts to frustrate the Alllied blockade.
Waratlips moved up and down it as they thought convenient. "U-boats used it, Stray" German liners and merchant ships, trying to get back to Germany from outer seas, follow= ed this route of over 600 miles lon.
"There hax been no greater impediment to the blockade of Germany than this Norwegian corridor. 10 was so in the last war, and it has been son this war.
"The British Navy has been forced catch an endless procession German and neutral ships carrying contraband of all kinds to Germany, which at any moment" they. could have stopped but which they felt forbidden to touch by the very same conventions of international "las which Germany in this war, as the last, has treated with the' utmost contempt "During the last war, when we associated with the United States, the Allies felt that they wore so deeply injured by this covered way used by Usboats in selling out _on maraudi expeditious, that the British, French and United States Government. together induced the Norwegian Go to lay a mine-field in their waters across the covered U-boats "They realize fully that their future independence and freedom are bound up with a victory for the Allies. They hoped ayainst hope that at the last moment their soil and cities would hot be polluted by the trampling of German columns, and their liberty and livelihood stolen away by forel tyrants
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