GERMANY'S WEAPON OF NECESSITY

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 97, 25 April 1916, Page 7

GERMANY'S WEAPON OF NECESSITY

USED WITH JUSTICE AND HUMANITY

(Received April 25, 9 a.m.) ' . NEW YORK, 24th April. Messages from Berlin state that the majority of fthe papers have commented at length on the American Note. Some consider that there is a possibility that Germany will attempt to meet President Wilson's demands. The Berlin Zeitung am Mittag declared that the Note does not electrify Germany as it was reported to have electrified America. Germany has been willing to go to the utmost limit'to meet the United States, even since the American Government sought to restrict, and even to make ineffective, our weapon of necessity. We have, as has been proved a thousand times to every thinking man, so far guarded the interests of all neutrals that no clash of opiniop has arisen among us. To the last man the German people, is united, and wfll not let the submarine be wrenched, from our hand. If is the weapon we need, because it has shown itself effective. We use it according to the principles of justice and humanity which have always been invoked in the American Notes, a,nd will use- it in future because it is our right and because humane consideration of our existence as a State and the future of our wives and children compel us to. Therefore, we await with calmness and determination what President Wilson aeaia.has to sa.y.

FOUR VESSELS SUNK. LONDON, 23rd April. .. Lloyd's report that the British steamer Cai?ngownn has been sunk. She was unarmed, and was not warned. The French four-masted steel barque Chanaral (2423 tons) has been torpedoed ; also the steamers Trecarrell and Feliciana. It is believed that in the last three named the crews were saved. [Cairngowan, 4017 tons, Cairn Line, Newcastle; Trecavrell. 3875 tons, Ham S.S. Co., St. Ives; Feliciana, 4283 tons, Gulf Line, West Hartlepool.]