Show WHAT or HOllAND AND iTALY How Is It If Possible for lor Them to Rem Remain in Out of at It and Supply Germany and Austria With Food Shipped From America and Elsewhere By HERBERT QUICK Author of On On Board the Good Ship Earth and other works work The supreme test of the neutrality of this country in the great E Eurasian war wari i is 18 yet et to come What will Trill happen when the Germans have overrun o Franco France and sh shut t up the tho French in Paris as Paris as at ot this writing looks looks' look o ks quite po possible Russia and Great Britain will face the task of carrying on tile the struggle alone as alone as they the did diet against that other great military cataclysm the Napoleonic armies I Their weapon must be starvation They must cut cat Germany off from the world world- world and and if Genn uy occupies France they must cut France off too in io in order orlIer that all German all German French and Austrians Austrians may may starve star together What stands in tho way w l of this g grimmest development de of oc the war wart H Holland Hol Holland l. l land and Italy These nations are as yet neutral Provisions for tho people le leare are not contraband of war 11 Grains meats and foodstuffs generally may mar be freely shipped h in neutral vessels esses to Holland and Italy and thence into Germany and Austria So long tong as these co countries remain neutral Ger Germany cannot bo be starved by oy by tho the navies of England and France The Dutch and Italian ports are aro very ery much moro more useful to Germany and Austria than are Hamburg Danzig and Trieste What will the demand of Holland and Italy They will be asked to declare themselves on ono side sido or the other or submit to the blockade of ot their coasts Americans Americana may mw profitably recall tn to tEo o c conditions leading up p to tho the war of 1812 as furnishing a parallel Napoleons Napoleon's Berlin BerHn and Milan n decrees and the British orders in co council declared practically all the coasts of E Europe rope in a state of ot blockade As a neutral tra trading nation the United States pro protested tested and actually began hostilities with Franco France on the sea But Napoleon backed down and rescinded his decrees Britain stood pat on her blockading orders in council and we went to war for lor the freedom to tr trade de w were re rethe the chief cau causes cs of this war ar It seems as though France Russia England and Japan must insist on making mate male ing Italy and Holland declare themselves es If It they tako take sides Bides with Germany they win will at least cease Mase to be funnels through which she will Win feed If It th they y tate take steps with the tho allies th they y must f face e tho war lord lard on land Poor n Holland Poor Italy Poor |