. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . gn power and thatwhatever the immediate issue maybe we need a third war of independ-ence to free ourselves finally fromthe shackles of England. GEORGE SYIiA^STER VIERECK.(From the Fatherland) BRITISH REPLY TO WILSON NOTETO CITE MORE GERMAN FAULTS. From Chicago Daily News, Feb.,1915. London, March 11.—The Britishreply to the American note suggestingthat Great Britain allow all foodstuffsto enter Germany in return for Ger-manys abandonment of its submarinewarfare on merchant vessels and itspolicy of mining the high seas is ex-pected to be f
. War echoes; or Germany and Austria in the crisis .. . gn power and thatwhatever the immediate issue maybe we need a third war of independ-ence to free ourselves finally fromthe shackles of England. GEORGE SYIiA^STER VIERECK.(From the Fatherland) BRITISH REPLY TO WILSON NOTETO CITE MORE GERMAN FAULTS. From Chicago Daily News, Feb.,1915. London, March 11.—The Britishreply to the American note suggestingthat Great Britain allow all foodstuffsto enter Germany in return for Ger-manys abandonment of its submarinewarfare on merchant vessels and itspolicy of mining the high seas is ex-pected to be forthcoming at an earlydate. While the contents of the reply arenot known, it is possible as the resultof inquiries in authoritative quartersto indicate some points likely to carryweight with the British governmentand to emphasize Sir Edward Greysanswer. There is a strong feeling in Down-ing street that the quid pro quoput forward in the American notedoes not go far enough. COLONIAL CAMPAIGNS IN THE WAR Great Britain in Africa, Egypt, and at Home 293. THJt; WORLD AT WAR (From The Literary Digest, New York, October 17, 1914)Germany and her colonies are black on this map, and her smaller island possessions are surrounded by a black line HerAfrican colonies are (1) German Southwest Africa, (2) German East Africa, (3) Kamerun, (4) Togoland. The largestcolonial territory outside of Africa is (5) Kaiser Wilhelms Land, in New Guinea. All that portion of the world not involvedin the European War is shown in white on the map. Officials of the foreign office pointout that since the beginning of thewar Great Britain only once has in-terfered with the supply of food des-tined for Germany, and then onlyafter the German government, by as-suming control of all foodstuffs, hadabolished the old distinction betweenthe civil and the military population. High German authorities have re-peatedly denied the British claim tocut off supplies of food from civiliansis a legitimate act of war. Great Bri
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