CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES
There aro many examples in thv> German newspapers of the strangeness of the working ot the Teutonic mind. In view of the outburst of patriotic enthusiasm evoked in Germany by the torpedoing' of the Cunard liner .Misitania, and the gleeful way in which the German Press records the triumphs of German submarines in sinking) unarmed merchant ships, and drowning the crews, one. would scarcely expect from a German source any protest .it the action of a Russian submarine in sinking Turkish ships, still less any suggestion that such a form of warfare is brutal and a violation of international law. Bufc the Berlin ' Lokalanzeiger,' in recording the torpedoing of two Turkish ships in the Black Sea, states:—"They were torpedoed without warning. Such an act is a defiance of all international laws, as it is contrary to all ideas of humanity. It is a sanguinary massacre without the slightest justification, and against it the Sublime Porte ig entitled to protest with, all the force at its command. For sheer bruta'.uy it 13 nob surpassed even by any of the de"spicable deeds that stand out in such bold relief in the shameless record of British naval warfare."
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Evening Star, Issue 15913, 20 September 1915, Page 7
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198CIRCUMSTANCES ALTER CASES Evening Star, Issue 15913, 20 September 1915, Page 7
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