RUNNING AMOK.
(To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—III the Spectator for January 13th, p. 33, you incidentally observe: " In running amok at sea she [Germany] is sinking the very ships which might bring food to her starring people after the war." May it not be truly said that the German submarines are at this moment intensifying the blockade of their own country, and actually aiding their enemy to starve German women and children? Every food-ship (whether neutral or British) sunk by Germany makes food dearer in Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland, the only lands from which Germany now can derive food. More—every food-ship sunk makes food dearer all the world over, and makes it harder for the shrinking purchase-power of Germany to acquire food. Thus as Germany seeks to cut the throat of Great Britain and Ireland, she saws deeper the gaping wound in her own throat. I think you have not noticed this weakness in German undersea warfare, nor hare I observed mention of it elsewhere.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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