Hibernating, Dopey, or Estimated Annual Amount Just Temperamental As Result of Allies' Two The largest and oldest of the Zoo's Way Blockade of Reich three giant pandas is puzzling those responsible for hi care, states the Germany will, it is estimated, lose Birmingham Post." Recently, Sung, about £45,000,000 a year as a result s this female specimen is known, of the Allied blockade of all enemy was moved from Whipsnade to exports which has come into force.
London because she appeared ill British and French orders implement-and spected to have internal ing the new blockade were published trouble. Her symptoms were an aprecently. parent inability to move and marked Last year the total value of Ger-lack of energy man seaborne exports was put at Now she is under observation in £100,000,000. Of these 30 per cent the Zoo hospital, ut her medical was destined for countries outside attendants are unable to say whether Europe and about 15 per cent. to the ly ill or developing a te countries of North and South Ameri-v to hipe: and so little ca. It is not perhaps generally ábout the habits of giant pan-cognized that Britain and France toat they have nothing to guide gether with a few overseas countries them. Obviously, Sung not in is received the bulk of German exports. pain. for she has no objection to The loss of this trade and the being touched, but she refuses to foreign exchange which it would move and sometimes seems incapable have brought into the German coffers of getting on her fe should be of substantial importance All this might ributable to in shortening the war. hibernation, but she wakes up to feed and is not in a torpid condition, with No Longer Dictate low temperature, as she should be if While it is admitted that Germany can continue to export goods overland, it is clear that the new blockade will make it impossible for her any longer to dictate her terms. There is a limit to the goods which European neutrals can take and conversely, alternative markets for neutral exports are opening up as a result of the wartime diversion of German trade, The German leaders' frantic efforts to frustrate the new Allied war measure show the importance attached by Berlin to obtaining the foreign exchange which Germany's exports yielded, While it is not overlooked that a certain volume of trade may be able to slip through the Allied control, the serious risk of intercept tion immensely raises the cost of shipping these goods.
'A further result of reducing the German stocks of foreign exchange is io limit her ability to render more palatable her unpopular and dictatorial clearing agreements with other European States.
Germany's urgent need for foreign exchange which she can obtain only by the sale of her exports abroad is well known. With this foreign exchange she is financing her intensive propaganda against the Allied cause and has for long been fostering unfair economic competition throughout the world.
It will be recalled that the United States not long ago imposed discriminatory duties against German goods because of the unfair trading methods employed by the Reich.
This step was taken in accord with the widely-understood fact that German foreign trade was being conducted not as a commercial but as a strategical operation. It has been operating unfairly against all competing countries both in the matter of exports and imports.
One outcome of the blockade will be to produce freer and fairer trading conditions in many world markets.
There are precedents from the last war which suggest that it will be possible to meet legitimate neutral complaints and to reach reasonably satisfactory compromise arrangements, hibernating. has name, "Dopey been subject to atta captor, wi therefore have of extreme lethargy.
If Sung's condition proves to be temperamental, and not due to ill-health, she will be placed on view for visitors. So far, she has not been seen at London Zoo. She was sent to Whipsnade last spring because she did not like the other two giant pandas, Ming and Ta who were equally antagonistic ards her. She seemed happy in the country Zoo, and did well until a month ago, when she became so quiet as to cause alarm.
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