Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-03-25 | Page 6 | Closed In

CLOSED IN. Notwithstanding the fact that the German raider Moewe has been able to slip out and in of her home port and do considerable damage to the shipping ship-ping of the -world, both enemy and neutral, neu-tral, Germany is practically isolated from the rest of the world and her representatives rep-resentatives abroad must have safe conduct con-duct from the entente allies in order to roach the fatherland. The United fctatos secured passage for Von Bern-storff Bern-storff when he was handed his passports pass-ports and after being detained at Halifax Hali-fax for a few days he finally got through. The German minister to China has had a more strenuous time and even . now is not at tho end of his troubles. When China severed diplomatic relations rela-tions with the imperial government she was unable to guarantee safe passage for tho minister, the only open overland over-land route being by way of Siam, which was not at all alluring or particularly safe. A wry out of tho difficulty has finally been found and it is proposed to send the German minister, tho consuls, sittachos Rnd some two or three hundred hun-dred soldiers homo by shipping them a. toss tho Pacific ocean to the United f-tates, whence they will tako ship tor somo Scandinavian port if the entente en-tente allies will consent to the plan. Xo agreement has been reached and it way be that, the United States and Ger-n.s.'iy Ger-n.s.'iy will be at war before the nego-t nego-t ntions can be concluded, in which cae it is doubtful if any consideration v.'U be shown. If safe conduct should be granted, however, the party will un-(loiibteilly un-(loiibteilly travel across tho continent in cio-ed caniages under heavy guard flad not be allowed to communicate with any of their fellows now in this r'linil ry. irelniann, the former German consul a' Manila, who has been going back a ad fnrlh over the Pacific, ocean like l.d vard Kverett Hale's "Man Without h ( nnntry" ever since the break with the Cnited States occurred, will be allowed al-lowed to accompany the party of Teutons Teu-tons from ( liina if present plans work cat. It ia their only hope, for they v.iil not be allowed to take refuge in Mr::ico or any South American coun try even with the consent of any of the governments down there, and any attempt to reach such neutral shores will inevitably result in capture and internment, and it may be that the whole party will be interned in any event. There has been so much schem- 1 ing and plotting that Germans owing ' allegiance to the kaiser are objects of suspicion all over the world and no neutral country cares to harbor them for fear that conspiracies would result in loss of life and damage to property. The United States has had an experience expe-rience of that kind and Uncle Sam is now girding up his loins to go forth to battle. It will not be many weeks before the lines will be more tightly drawn than ever and Germany will be completely com-pletely isolated. None of the Scandinavian Scandina-vian countries, or Spain or Switzerland will be ablo to extend any aid or . comfort, com-fort, even should they so desire, without with-out arousing the antagonism of the Test of the world, which would be fatal to the future of all these little nations. While it is true that unrestricted submarine sub-marine warfare has resulted in shortening short-ening the food supply of Great Britain Brit-ain and France, it is none the less true that the blockade of the allies has put, it beyond the power of the Teutonic countries to obtain foodstuffs from the outside and the people of Germany and Austria are doubtless suffering greater privations than either the English or the French. And it should be added that once the United States enters the war food supplies in sufficient quantities quanti-ties will reach the entente allies forthwith.