It would appear from the figures that England was indirectly supplying Germany _inter alia_ with margarine. In 1913 Great Britain sent to Holland 1,914 tons of the raw material, as against 6,166 tons in 1916. Germany sent no raw material to Holland during either of the years quoted. In 1913 Holland exported 308 tons of margarine to Belgium and to Germany 401 tons. In 1915 Holland exported 7,616 tons to Belgium and 21,721 tons to Germany. _Totals of 709 tons suddenly jumped to 29,237._ _Coffee._--Before the war Germany had always exported coffee to Holland in thousands of tons. During 1915 she sent in none at all, but she imported from Holland 129,968 tons; whilst 32,822 tons in addition were sent to Belgium for German use as against a prior yearly average import of about 8,000 tons. _N.B._--England, which during 1911, 1912 and 1918 exported a yearly average of 6,720 tons of coffee to Holland, suddenly increased her exports to this country to 15,672 tons in 1914 and to 28,425 tons in 1915. In March, 1916, Brazil was seizing German ships because she could not collect a trifle of about £4,000,000 owing to her for coffee by the Fatherland. _Cotton._--In the three years before the war England exported an average of 7,808 tons of unspun cotton to Holland, but in 1915 she sent no less than 22,856 tons. Germany, which _exported_ an average of 33,975 tons before the war, actually _imported_ from Holland direct in 1915 no less than 38,750 tons. The Commercial Treaty of the Rhine, cunningly made by the clever Teutons before war was declared, prevented the Dutch from even examining any cargoes which were thereunder arranged for direct shipment into Germany; whilst from the very first the workings of the much-boasted arrangement made by our Foreign Office with the Netherlands Overseas Trust _piled up evidence, week by week and month by month, that our so-called blockade was an absolute farce_. In the famous "Kim" case before the Prize Court, the President, Sir Samuel Evans, made the law quite clear. Figures were placed before the Court to show that the average monthly quantities of lard exported from the United States to all Scandinavia in October and November, 1913, was 427,428 lbs. Within three months of the outbreak of war one company was shipping to Copenhagen alone _considerably over twenty times that quantity in three weeks_. When it might have been thought that the public had forgotten this complete and overwhelming evidence, Lord Emmott, speaking on behalf of the Government, told the House of Lords that "an abnormal supply to a country is not sufficient reason to stop a cargo." Here was a Government spokesman absolutely contradicting the Prize Court Judge--another unwarrantable interference with the rights of Democracy. On February 22nd and 23rd, 1916, the House of Lords debated an important motion ably advocated by Lord Sydenham.