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Show Submarine Wins, ViceChancellorof Germany Declares Foundations of British World Empire Already Al-ready Shaken, Dr. Heifferich Tells Agricultural Convention. BERLIN; Monday, Feb. 19, by wireless to Sayville, Feb. 21. The address of Dr. Karl Heifferich, the imperial vice chancellor and secretary of the imperial treasury, before the German Agricultural council's convention in Berlin, is reported today by the Overseas News agency. Dr. Heifferich, in alluding to the German' submarine warfare, declared: "We are sure of success and shall allow nothing and nobody to wrest this success from us. Already the navigation which links the British isles with the rest of the t world has been depressed to the1 DR. HELFF ERICH -i f danger point. The tonnage ar- riving in British ports in December Decem-ber last was only 2,200,000 net, While the monthly average of the last peace year was 4,200,000 tons. Already England's reserve stocks of the most important things necessary for her life and military mili-tary operations are depleted to such a point that she more than ever before is dependent upon plentifully assured importations. The British world empire, whose foundations are already shaken, is now the object of powerful, merciless strokes by crar subma-rjne subma-rjne navy, which has been increased in-creased in numbers and efficiency. effi-ciency. And this will continue i until the day dawns which every V ' - German heart ardently awaits. ' England, more than1 ever before, has to rely upon her own soil. German soil is now fighting. against English soil." Dr. Heifferich said he recognized the capabilities of British agriculture ag-riculture and British willingness to endure privations, but pointed out that natural limitations could not be escaped. For instance, he said, Germany's normal crop of bread grain before the war was 230 kilograms per head, while England's was but thirty; Germany's potato po-tato crop was 650 kilograms per head and England's only 150, while the stock of cattle per thousand inhabitants in Germany was 320 and in England 260, and pigs in Germany 379, as against England's En-gland's 80. "If all do their full duty and every German does his duty-then duty-then the year 1917," concluded the speaker, "will bring the turning turn-ing point of the age; then the year 1917 will crush our British enemy on the seas and open for the German nations the doors leading to a free, great future." |