Excerpt from Stead's Review of Reviews: March-April, 1915 The whole question is that of con tinuous voyage, to which constant re ference has been made in these pages, and, unless Britain is prepared to fix a definite allowance of imports for neutral countries, it would seem to be impos sible to prevent - more than we are al ready doing - supplies from reaching Germany ln this way To assume con trol of the trade of a powerful neutral like Italy, rs a tall order, and yet Italy, from our point of view, is easily the worst offender. The English press has said little about it, but the French papers have not been so reticent, and state definitely that Italy has been the chief conduit pipe for German supplies. The Allies want Italy to come 111 and help them, they therefore will hardly risk alienating he1 sympathies by dictat ing to her Government the amount of material which may be imported into the country. The fact of the matter is that it IS almost impossible for the Allies to cripple Germany more than they are at present doing. On the face of it, it looks as if this announcement of Mr Asquith' s were dictated by a de sire to placate public indignation, rather than with the hope of striking a shrewd blow at Germany. Even if this Euro pean blockade does ston some supplies getting through to the foe, and hastens the inevitable result of the struggle, would an allied victory, say a month earlier, compensate for antagonising all the neutrals and showing Britain before the world as a breaker of the rules of war' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.