THE LUSITANIA CRIME

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2499, 28 June 1915, Page 5

THE LUSITANIA CRIME

GERMANY'S REPLY TO UNITED

STATES' NOTE

ABANDONS ARMED LINER DEFENCE

INSISTS ON SUBMARINE WARFARE

New York, June 25. A United Press Association messagft from Berlin states that Germany's reply indicates that she does not desire to jeopardise neutrals' interests, and re-echoes President Wilson's suggestion that Great Britain should, modify her policy, to enable foodstuffs to enter Germany, The reply declares that Germany was probably misinformed regarding Me arming of the Lusitania, and expresses her willingness to negotiate with Washington for the protection of passengers, but she does not desire to relinquish her submarine warfare, which she regards as her-most effective weapon.

The Note contends that any compromise concerning "belligerent merchant-, men must secure to Germany immunity from attack by them upon submarines. AN "UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE." GERMAN APOLOGY TO DENMARK. (Rec. June 27, 3.23 p.m.) Copenhagen, June 26. I Germany lias apologised to Denmark for her "unfortunate mistake" in torpedoing the steamer Soborb (2148 tons), which was sunk 40 miles north-eastward of the Tyne. Compensation k offered.

AMERICAN NOTE TO GREAT

BRITAIN

NON-CONTRABAND CARGOES

Washington, June 25,

A new American Note is being prepared for. dispatch to Great Britain. ..It will insist that lion-contraband cargo consigned" to neutral farts', regardless of its eventual destination, shall not be molested.

[Note. —This point, if conceded, would destroy the effectiveness of the British blockade in so far as it related to the principle of continuous voyages—cargoes shipped to neutral ports and thence railed to Germany.]

TORPEDOED AND BURNT

NORWEGIAN STEAMER OFF SHETLAND ISLES

London, June 25. I The Norwegian steamer Truma, bound from Archangel to London, was torpedoed and burnt off the Shetland Islands. Tile crew were saved. DUTCH STEAMER SUNK. BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN TORPEDOED. (Rec. June 27, 3.25 p.m.) Goponhagen, June 26. The Dutch steamer Ceros was sunk in the Gulf of Bothnia (Baltic Sea). The crew was saved. ' : It is believed that slie_ was torpedoed as a torpedoer in the vicinity made no attempt to assist. GERMAN SUBMARINE BLOWN UP. CAUSE UNKNOWN. (Rec. June 23, 0.20 a.m.) Amsterdam, June 27. A German submarine, after leaving Emden, bound seawards, on Tuesday, exploded. The cause is not known. She sank. The commander and two of the crew in the turret were saved. The remainder are reported to have been drowned.* ANOTHER OUTBURST IN THE GERMAN PRESS. HUNS URGED~TO~KEEP THEIP HATRED WARM. , • Amsterdam, June 26. Herr von Reventlow, Admiral von Tirpitz's mouthpiece, writing to the "Deutche Tage Zeitung ; "_ warns Germany not to stop her anti-British hatred. "Germany," he says, "cannot accept the position of ruling the world alongside Britain, . and therefore must break the latter's 'strength. Those refusing to hate England must regard lier with feelings of contempt and disgust. No otlier course is possible for true Germans." Encouraged bv, the "Tage Zeitung's' reappearance (the paper _ was recently suppressed), the "Zeuz Zeitung" vehemently insists that Germany must not reede from her standpoint on submarine warfare. "It vou'd lie pitiable spu'sjli lar.imity to even consider the possibility of agreeing to America's demands on condition that tlie Imited States induces Britain to raise her blockade, as the latter's starvation plan lias failed ' WEEK'S LOPS IN MERCHANT SHIPPING. The High Commissioner reports London, June 25, 10.30 p.m. "The total sailings and arrivals of oversea steamers to and from British ports for the week ending June 23, was 1469. Three vossels were sunk by submarines; total of 526!) tons. British fishing vessels sunk, 2: tonnage, 240. THE ATTACK ON THE CRUISER ROXBURGH A GERMAN VERSION. (Rec. June 27, 4.5 p.m. Amsterdam, June 26. A Berlin .official"version of the top« pedoing of the British cruiser Roxburgh says that Submarine 20, when one hundred miles from the Firth of Forth, torpedoed a British armoured cruiser of the Minotaur class. The torpedo got licme, but it was impossible to oberre the effect.

In tho course of a sermon at St. Mary's Church, Tim.iru, or. Sunday last, Archdeacon Jacob said:—"l uould liko to rofor to a matter which is of, yet j.fit of, the war. Tlioro arc some unthinking persons who have been making a practice of sending whito feathers to young fellows who have not enlisted. Can thoro be anything cioro cowardly, more detestable, than such tactics? In many cases tho young fellows who bava received them have been young inen who would givo all tlicy possessed in order to get away to the front, but they havo reasons —good reasons —which stand in tho way. I have learned that the3B white feathers arn sent anonymously, and by girls, and I sinccrely hope tl'ero are not any girls in this church tonight who would bo guilty of such v mean and contemptible action."

The Administrator of Rhodesia (the Hon. F. D. P. Chaplin), speaking at Salisbury to the members of the Legislative Council, mentioned that, in addition to 1000 men' comprising the two Rhodesian regiments fighting in West ajid East Afnca, between 6ffo and 700 Rhodesians had left to join tho forces in Europe and elsewhere, while large gifts of maize and tobaooo had been nods by, the farmswi