"PANIC-STRICKEN."

Marlborough Express, Volume XLIX, Issue 29, 4 February 1915, Page 2

"PANIC-STRICKEN."

\ The Daily Telegraph's New York ; correspondent sho^s what a blow Ad- ; miral Sturdee's brilliant victory has beon to German prestige in America., \

and declares that the Germans there are simply panic-stricken. It seems impossible (he says), but it is absolutely true, that £he majority of Germans in the United States— there are several millions here—believe that the cruisers are still proudly afloat, and that the news of the disaster has been invented by the British Admiralty for political purposes to prevent a popular uprising in England ! in the meantime, from all parts of South America, where trade has been greatly interrupted by the German raiders, there come messages of jubilatibn. "It is only a question of time," says ithe New York Tribune, ''before the German flag disappears from the sea.

"In the big stakes at issue the submarine raids of the Germans, their victory over the squadron of Admiral Cradock, and the havoc of their mines in the Nqrth Sea count for little or nothing in the opinion of naval experts. The British Navy has already, they say, won a victory for. the Allies of greater value than any victory on land during the entire war. The victory was the feat of forcing the- Germans to bottle up their warships in the Kiel Canal and to leave their merchanit marine rotting in ports all over the world. The sheer superiority of_ the big-gun ships accomplished this."

"Panic-stricken," says one dispatch. Panic-stricken certainly is thel word which describes the condition of the little German coterie in New York who have been responsible for the coaling and provisioning of German raiders ever since the war began, and 'whose commissions are now nearly gone. >. i