"Mediterranean Never So Strongly Held by Allies"
London, Oct. 25.
Summing up the prospects of a German military blockade of Great Britain, the military observer of the "Yorkshire Post" says:—"Neutral countries are not alarmed by the threat to treat their ships as enemies if they continue to trade with Great Britain. They are well aware of the fact that our sea and air units are ceaselessly watching enemy craft. Neutrals easily see through the German attempts to combine them into an international blockade. As Germany does not pay cash, they would soon have bad budgets, besides being saddled with the status of belligerents."
"Germany's recent losses in submarines and aircraft," he adds, "are not helpful to the policy of attacking Great Britain with these arms. The pact with Turkey operates on the sea against Germany and Soviet Russia, Japan, Turkey nor Italy have listened to German blandishments.
"The Mediterranean," the correspondents adds, "was never so strongly held by the Allies, while the Egyptian Army, modernized and re-equipped, re-organized, and supported by British and Indian troops; becomes a new instrument in the Near East."—Reuter.
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