NEW PIRATICAL EDICT.
GERMAN DESIGNS ON MERCHANTMEN SHOOT-ON-SIGHT WAR TeloEraph—Press Association—Copyrighl (Rec. February 11, 10.30 p.m.) Amsterdam, February 10. A German memorandum to neutral it-ates that henceforward armed cnem, nerchantmen will bo treated as be. igerents, and warns neutrals not t trust persons or property on sue ■easels. TO OPERATE ON MARCH 1. London, February 11. < The Austro-Gernian Government lave notified neutrals that tho nei iclioy will become effective on March 1 ANOTHEHPIRATICAL CAMPAIGN (Rec. February 12, 0.30 a.m.) London, February 11. Tho newspapers interpret the Germai nemorandum as meaning s that tin nemy is about |to embark on anothei ampaign of piratical outrages. The "Daily Mail" construes it as t eprisal for tho Baralong incident. [An armed liner properly commission id is do facto a belligerent ship, ant is such is regarded as a naval unit Yhatthe above message probably mean: —and if so the new threat is a shoot >n-sig'ht policy—is that any merchantnan, not an armed liner properly so ailed, but nevertheless suspected o: arrying defensive ordnance, will bo at acked as a warship, and her personne egarded as combatants.] »
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2693, 12 February 1916, Page 5
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183NEW PIRATICAL EDICT. Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2693, 12 February 1916, Page 5
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