WHAT ABOUT IT AGAIN?

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 2733, 2 June 1915, Page 2

WHAT ABOUT IT AGAIN?

Of all the nations that have ever gone in for the exercise of diplomacy, surely the Germans are the most amateurish. Their spirit is willing enough to cover the Avhole earth, but their flesh is so gross as to be utterly weak in achievement. What is tho total effect of 25 years of underground work in the realm of diplomacy? Austria and Turkey dragged'into the Avar of DeiTag! Prince yon Bulow was fooled in Italy/ Baron John Bernstorff is on the A'erge of being kicked out of America as another tool of fools, and Holland has no faith in Germany except in her faithlessness. Just as the Kaiser's diplomats helped the Italians into the war rather than hindered them, so avi'U it bo found that diplomatic defeat -will be repeated all along the Balkans. And Germany folloA\ r s up a series of insolent and illogical Notes to America by punctuating each with the torpedoing of an American merchantman on the high seas. The Kaiser's fool diplomats argue that because the Lusitania was carrying munitions for the British, therefore she was fair game for the fmbinarine. As a mattor of fact, whether it be proved or not that the Atlantic ferry steamer bad such a cargo as the Germans claim, that did not justify her sinking, Tho Americans have offered equal facilities te the German as to tho British War Offices to supply needs, like tho" keen traders the Americans are. But because A r on Tirpitz prefers te remain High Admiral of the Kiel" Cana-TGermany,, cannot get Amorican goods delivered in Germany. Britannia rules the waves, therefore U.S.A. can deliver her goods in Britain' And that is Avhat hurts the Bully of Europe. That is why he cares as little for an American ship as for a Britisher. Noav comes the addition of the steamer Dixaama to the. list of American ships wantonly torpedoed by German submarines. Hoav many last straAvs Avill America carry ?