PIRATES.

Feilding Star, Volume XII, Issue 2887, 6 March 1916, Page 2

PIRATES.

WIIAT SCH W URZEN STEIN SAY S ABOUT THEM. THE \V_iOLl_ GERMAN PEOPLE DETERMINED.

Baron Schwurzenstein, a high oilicial in the Berlin Foreign Office, interviewed by the Scandinavian press, states that the whole German people are determined to carry out the new submarine campaign from Wednesday, because the enemy ha.s arriied merchant ships, thereby contravening international law. Pirates on the high seas belong to the past, therefore itis unnecessary to arm merchantmen. Berlin has issued photographs of alleged British secret orders directing merchantmen to attack submarines. [International laws (which Germans treat as mere scraps of paper) provide that merchant ships may mount guns to protect themselves against an enemy's attack.]