His reply was, 'We had borrowed the meat for the occasion, and promised to return it.' "Duty alone induced this great soldier to submit to such privation, for the slightest intimation given to friends in Richmond would have filled his tent with all the luxuries that blockade-runners and speculators had introduced for the favored few able to purchase.

The North, besides blockade-running, had a further cause of complaint.

Action taken with the U.S. authorities for the introduction of a system by which the trade from that country in neutral shipping was controlled enabled the ships of the 10th Cruiser Squadron to be gradually withdrawn from blockade duties and utilized as ocean convoy cruisers.

The reasons which had led to the adoption of the Orkney-Faroe-Iceland blockade line were also explained.

His complaints of our blockade policy were frigidly acknowledged by Lord MILNER and hotly resented by Lord LANSDOWNE, upon whom Lord PORTSMOUTH'S ruddy beard always has a provocative effect.

All these matters were additional to the important work upon which the Trade Division was constantly employed, which included all blockade questions, the routeing of merchant ships, examination of ships, etc.

She made this claim very early, however, for the purpose of hoodwinking British blockade advocates.

This truth is strikingly verified in the persons of the men on our blockade stations, for the prevention of smuggling.

Twenty-sixThe existing "blockade conditions set up by the allies and associated powers are to remain unchanged, and all German merchant ships found at sea are to remain liable to capture.