Show WORK IR FOR ALLIES of the fact Is current in both France an and England It Is that this corporation represents a large Investment Investment investment Invest invest- ment by one of the most powerful and Influential religious orders of the Roman Ro no man Catholic and that the Germans have haye made it a policy pOlley not unnecessarily to give offense In this quarter Secondly Second Second- ly it ft is a n matter of frequent note that certain French ships are Va al always s 's permitted permitted per per- to escape while other vessels In the same waters are ate invariably at at- tacked acl Almost Cut Off France is now almost as completely cut of off from the privilege of commerce with wilh her neighbors by land as is Great i iI I Britain To ro put it In the reverse she fhe is almost as dependable on shipping as England Before the war accordIng according accord accord- ing kg to the tile French ministry of marine marine- France imported by land tons annually while last year her Imports by land laud amounted to only 1 Inasmuch as the total of Imports In 1916 1016 was 4 tons the proportion received by land is very small indeed Inasmuch as France IsI is I at present much less capa capable le of livIng livIng living liv liv- ing within Itself than is England by reason of the necessity particularly to import metals and coal it may fairly be said that France Is even more dep dependent de de- de- de p pendent upon maintaining her touch with the sea than is England The French is co government cooperating ing with England In every p possible wa way to increase the pro production of new tonnage but Frances France's contribution must necessarily be small mall compared to o those of England and the United States The French minister of marine said that Great Britain would shortly have to recall a n part of the vessels which she had lent to France Franca British needs are are Increasing rapidly and anti no vessel will be recalled from the servIce servIce service ice of an nn ally unless it Is agreed between between between be be- tween the Ule two countries that it Ismore is ismore ismore more necessary to than to the ally The British nation before the war warl was importing tons tOllS of goods a year rear which fell to tons In 1016 and will be considerably further reduced this year Before the war foodstuffs represented less than 25 per percent percent percent cent of the Imports in 1916 two thirds of all nIl imports c consisted of foodstuffs munitions of war and the manufacture of ot war supplies |