6 MARCH 1915, Page 3

The Foreign Office announced at the end of last week

that a blockade of German East Africa would begin at midnight on February 28th—March 1st. The blockade includes the whole coast and the islands. Four days' grace was allowed for the departure of neutral vessels. The coast- line is over three hundred miles long, but as there are not many ports the serious business of the blockade will pro- bably be confined to a comparatively few places. As the Naval Correspondent of the Times says, Zanzibar and the French islands to the north-west of Madagascar will furnish bases for the blockading ships. As for the land frontiers, they are Belgian and Portuguese whom they are not British.