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Show Germans Prevent Danish People From Shipping LONDON, April 1 7. (Correspondence (Correspond-ence of The Associated Press ) u hilo the attention of the allies is concentrated concen-trated on the Germans along th western west-ern front, German government officials in SchleSWlg are preventing the Lanes, who have the consent of the interne, from shipping food to their ov. n needy coun'rin- n in Schleswle. This informal ion has been received hero hy Edmund Gosse, well-known Lnclish literary critic. "I learn," he said in a letter to the Morning Post, "that the burgomaster of Fiensburg declares thai the hungry inhabitants of that town, the largest in Schleswig 'have no need of Danish food.' " The same German official, according accord-ing lo Mr Gosse's informal ion, h refused re-fused passports to any families in liu-town liu-town and district of Fiensburg io cross (Over into Denmark io accept an offer of Jutland and Pnnen to receive sev oral thousand I unish-p"nking SchlSS wis children. "If Danes In Fiensburg dislike Oeiman rule,'' he puis it. "they j may starve." Mr. Gosse terms as "'scandalous'' the treatment of Schleswig soldiers re-patriated re-patriated through Denmark, Thpr nnhitpp men,'' he said, "are arrested as they cross the frontier, are prevented from even islting their relatives, and are immediately con-veyed con-veyed to the Polish frontiers to jwell the German arm there. North Schls Wig ir at the present moment more j I sev erely persecuted than if was even (through the war. Thnre is proceeding a commandeering of cattle and horses which is paralysing to the population,! and this is emphasized b the indulgence indul-gence with which South (or German) 'Schleswig Is being treated." Schleswig, he understands is now closed to all persons coming from I h nmark. "On the Rhine, under the eye of England and Prance," Mr Gosse ob-i served, "the boche may be meek enough but he shows little chance of heart where he escapes from the eye I of the victorious allies." Schleswig, the northern half of I Schleswig-Holsteln between the North nd Ualtic sens, has been a pro' inc :of Prussia since 1864 when it was I wrested from Danish control. Under Ihe peace treaty of Paris the control of certain zones of Schleswig is to be j decided bv plebiscite |