Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-03-05 | Page 6 | Embargo on Dyes is Denounced in Berlin

EMBARGO ON DYES i DENOUNCED IN BERLIN t j BY CARL W W. ACKERMAN t Press Staff CorrespondentS Correspondent S 'S BERLIN Feb 24 by Mall Ger Mall Ger German I m man n newspapers today o ay led by the Cologne Gazette demand that an an emI embargo embargo em em- I b bargo be placed upon the millions o dollars donars worth of exports now going to toI An American and other lf neutral ports if I the allies succeed In fastening the door o oJ all imports Into Germany with their I D absolute blockade padlock Either this this or let the German that commerce com corn merce merc between N Norway Sweden and ami Denmark i Is uninterrupted Among Germanys Germany's valuable exports which pre are re still sUll needed In the United States are dyes gloves stockings and the like hike Every m month nth according c to official statistics at the American consulate consulate con con- many thousand of dollars worth of or these products leave heave Germany for COI some neutral country en route to America Last week a largo large shipment of ot dyestuff was rel released se a-se and shipped 1 from Holland Today an Am American e Ii can Importer Importer- called on Ambassador Gerard and asked him bun to help him bin get worth of gloves oyt oit of Germany Foreseeing the possibility of England's England's England's Eng Eng- lands land's attempting a stricter blockade o of G Germany this country has Instituted t ted measures cal calculated to stop German exports until after the war There Is an embargo on dyestuff In force already and according to AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican lean business men here Is having havinga a a. ruinous effect upon American busi busi- ness S I Germany however has her eye on the United States and is watching every move of President Wilson ag against England's latest decree The German press argues that this act is in reality not a new blockade against Germany but a bl bh blockade against the neutral countries surrounding her Its t-t- t 11 A th 10 will Will win not noc IIA hI oe 10 t-t- t 11 A th 10 will Will win not noc IIA hI oe 10 chief effect ey upon Germany but upon the neutral merchants Jn In Holland and the Scandinavian Scandinavian Germany today is exporting millions of dollars worth of goods to neutral neutra countries countries- much of or which goes to Ameri America a. a It is true that commerce has been greatly reduced due partly to to the English blockade and partly to the tho tremendous domestic burden on Cerman German German Ger Ger- man factories making war munitions Eighty per cent of Germanys Germany's factories factories factories fac fac- tories Is IB engaged In this work The Theother Theother other 20 per cent Is occupied with products Germany can export and has exported ever since the W war r began