NO PEACE CONFERENCE: THE BOYCOTT.
[To eez EDITOR OP THE " SPICMTOR."] Sia,—Your correspondent "E. M. V." ignores the fact that the British blockade of Germany did not apply to food for, the civil population till the German Government issued a corn-requisition- ing order which stultified the distinction as to destination pre- scribed by the Declaration of London. Before that happened the Germans had given initiatory examples of all their subsequent outrages, and had sunk food cargoes consigned to the United Kingdom, as in the case cf the William P. Fry.' The whole population of Germany had acquiesced tacitly or overtly in those acts and in the Belgian events. The same spirit appeared when the crimes against disarmed Russia produced no practical protest in Germany. The disciples of Frederick the Great and Bismarck will not be conciliated by mansuetude any more than they were placated by British Free Trade before the war.—I am, Sir, 8zc.,
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