The New York Times/1916/11/22/New Allied Demands Presented to Swiss
NEW ALLIED DEMANDS PRESENTED TO SWISS
Berlin Hears Quantities of Food Are Being Held Up Pending Switzerland’s Compliance.
BERLIN, Nov. 21, (by Wireless to Sayville.)—It is reported from Switzerland that new demands have been presented to the Swiss Government by the Entente Powers. Swiss press dispatches, as quoted by the Overseas News Agency, say that large quantities of food and other supplies are being held up in Italian and French ports pending Switzerland’s compliance with the demands, which are characterized by the Bund of Berne as “something unheard of in the memory of man,” and as “treatment which no one can endure.”
After long negotiations with the Entente powers and Germany, Switzerland entered into arrangements for the importation of food supplies through allied territory, and of coal, iron and other materials from Germany. A dispatch from Berne on Nov. 13 said a new dispute had arisen regarding the exportation to Germany and Austria of products made by machines lubricated with oil coming from Entente countries, and of electric power transmitted by copper wire purchased in these countries.