CHAPTER XIII.
GERMAN RESOURCES The Food-Supply--War Expenses--The Copper Supply--The Call for Gold--No Outside Resources--The Human Sacrifice.
Counting Montenegro and Servia as two nations, there are now seven countries at war against Germany, Austria, and Turkey, and two more, possibly three, may join in within a few weeks.

If Greece enters the battle-line, it will be ten nations against three.

When Roumania and Italy join the Allies, as is now being diplomatically arranged, Germany will be completely surrounded, with Switzerland, Holland, and Denmark in a measure locked in and powerless to give aid or assistance to the Germans.

Indeed, these three smaller countries and Scandinavia are practically locked in now, with the North Sea placed in the war zone, and Italy as well as Denmark and Holland shutting out all contraband goods for reexport to Germany and Austria.
Thus we have the spectacle of two nations of more than 115,000,000 people actually surrounded and besieged.

Jointly these two nations in occupation of their entire territory could feed themselves from their own soil.