On June 21st a still more unfavourable report was re-
ceived, from which it appeared that the rations were again reduced at Ruhleben, and the money which should have been spent on them had been accumulated. The British Government now announced that if the rations were not increased within a week they "would consider what course to adopt with regard to the rations of German civilians interned here." The Cologne Gazette makes the brutal and impudent answer which might
have been expected. It retorts that the blockade starves Germany, and that the British prisoners must naturally be the first to suffer. We may mention here the statement by Lord Crewe in the Lords on Tuesday that the Turks had formed a cordon round the Lebanon district, and were practically starving the people inside. He feared another Armenia.
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