STRATEGY.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2872, 16 February 1916, Page 4

STRATEGY.

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London, February I'A

The. correspondent of tho Times at Washington says the cat is out of the Prussian diplomatic bag. Count John JJcrnstorll", Germany's Ambassador to U.S.A., with rare cynici.sni, made delivery of tho famous Lu.sitania memorandum on tho occasion .of the announcement of the war on merchantmen memorandum. This explains the lack of jubilation in American oilicial circles over the apparent sctteinenl. of the Lusitania case. It is feared that America, has been manoeuvred into the. most difficult position, and it is assumed that Mr "Lansing (America's Secretary for State) will put out his memorandum to tho Allies believing that they will accept it. FJe is presumably yielding to tho insistent nagging of the Central Powers, in the hope that thereby ho will facilitate tho .settlement of the Lusitauin case. Merlin's records .seem ominously strategic, and Germany has not only found a. convenient wav of nullifying the practical results' of President Wilson's Lusitania victory, but has stirred up a controversy fraught with unpleasantness to Anglo-Ameri-can relations and with considerable danger to American prestige. The German press unanimously applaud the memorandum; describing it as extremely Important and stating that tho step may prove the turning point in the war.

Captain Perseus, a. German naval authority, writing in bis paper, the ISerliner/fagoulatt, says he thinK.stho nnw policy removes many submarine snares.

Tho Lokal Anzeiger says that it will hit England directly by wearing