"PANIC-STRICKEN"

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2370, 28 January 1915, Page 5

"PANIC-STRICKEN"

THE EFFECT UPON GERMANS IN AMERICA. The "Daily Telegraph's" New York correspondent shows what a blow Admiral Sturdce's brilliant victory has been to German prestige in America, and declares that tho Germans there are simply panic-stricken. It seems impossible (he says), but it is absolutely true, that the majority of Germans in the United States—there are several millions here—believe that the cruisers are still.proudly afloat, and that the news of the disaster has been invented by the British Admiralty for . political purposes to prevent a popular uprising in England! ,In the meantime, from all parts of. South America, whero trade has been greatly interruptjed by the German raiders,' there come messages of jubilation. "It is only a question of time," says ihe "New York Tribune," "before the German flag disappears from the sea. i "In the big stakes at issue the submarine raids of the Germans, their victory over the squadron of Admiral Cra'dock, and tho havoc of their mines in the North Sea count for little or nothing in the opinion of naval experts. The British Navy has already they say, won a victory for the Allies of greater value than any victory on land : during the entire war. The victory ■was the feat of forcing the Germans 'to bottle up their warships in the Kiel Canal and to leave their, merchant , Marine rotting in ports ail over the ( world. The sheer superiority of the fibig-gun ships accomplished tin's'." ' "Panic-stricken," says one dispatch. 'Panic-stricken certainly is the word i which describes the' condition of the .little' German coterie in New York who iavo been responsible for the coaling iind provisioning of: Germain raiders ever since_ the war began, and whose com.missions are now nearly gone.