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Show WHY BLOCKADE GREECE? Why the entente powers should continue con-tinue the food libvkadc of Greece after the Greek troops have been withdrawn so far lo the south that an attack on the allies from the rear is no longer possible is not apparent. We hear of riots due to famine and are told that in some parts of the country the people are eating grass. The world will wait anxiously for some expln naf ion by which the allied jiowers can juslify the con t i u ;ia nee of the blockade. II is po-'-ib. that, sm,ie of the foodstuffs w err. '.; shipfi I into the Teutonic, limf VV.V A. bet w ecu I he a Mir d f-u but the amounts must have been small and the gap now is closed. The news that a big offensive is about to start in Macedonia affords something of an explanation. The allies al-lies have been using most of their tonnage, ton-nage, which now includes the Greek merchant marine, to take into Greece troops and military supplies. "Yhilo this work has been in progress the Mediterranean Med-iterranean has been infested with German Ger-man and ' Austrian submarines which have succeeded in sinking numerous ships, some of them Iroop and munitions transports. This has forced the allies to use constantly more and more of the Greek ships, so that at present the Greeks have far less than the requisite number of ships for the transportation of foodstuffs. Our own experience shows that there may be-famino in (he midst df comparative compara-tive plenty. Ill-balanced distribution resulting in excessively -high prices at certain centers makes it impossible for the poor to get sufficient food. And yet in those very centers such as New York -vast quantities of graiu purchased pur-chased abroad are in the holds of ships which cannot sail because of the ruthless ruth-less submarine war. Virtually an embargo em-bargo has been established, but prices do not fall because the foodstuffs are held for shipment to foreign countries. |