GERMANY'S GUILT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 15915, 12 May 1915, Page 8

GERMANY'S GUILT.

"A MONSTROUS CRIME."

ACT OF ASSASSINS.

SYMPATHY WITH AMERICA.

Times and Sydney Sun Services.

London, May 10.

The Times in a leader on the sink- j ing of tho Lusitania says:—" There can be no division of guilt. The purpose of the German Kaiser, Government, and people was the wholesale murder, and nothing else, of not only non-combatants, but of many citizens of friendly neutral nations. It is not for us to speculate on the course America should adopt when confronted with this., monstrous crime, which concerns them as closely as ourselves. We shall not seek to accentuate their heavy responsibility. The act is in the same category as the wanton murderous outrages in Belgium—the cold-blooded slaughter of innocents, the outraging of thousands of helpless women and girls, and the unnumbered acta of bestiality, robbery, and " torture which have been perpetrated without protest by neutrals." The Daily Mail remarks:—"There is only one word for such infamy. It. is not an act of war, but sheer cowardly murder. The Americans, like ourselves, have still to learn that the German is a foe free from all restraints of humanity—a stabbing, slashing, trampling, homicidal maniac, with no respect for tho laws of God or man. He is a wild, cunning beast, broken loose, and must be caught and killed before the peace and security of the world are upset. It would be impertinent to counsel tho Americans at this juncture, and we can only offer our profoundest sympathy. At such times tho English-speaking kinship is unmistakably manifest. We share their indignation, loathing, and contempt for the assassins, and promise "nt, so far as in our power, the d. >of the Americans shall be avenged. We shall suffer much, we shall lose thousands of men, and possibly scores of ships in crushing these vipers into impotence, but in the end, please God, we Khali cleanse the world of a venomous pest."

METHOD IN MADNESS.

CALCULATED OUTRAGE.

TERRORISING NEUTRALS.

London, May 10.

Mr. Bonar Law, speaking in London, asked, What did the sinking of the Lusitania mean"! It might mean that the Germans were simply running amok, and did the deeds of desperate men, but he thought that there was method in their madness. Germany having failed to secure the sympathy of neutrals, was determined to terrorise them.

The Lusitania outrage would convince Britain that not only her soldiers, but the whole .nation, was at war, and every ounce of strength must be directed to bringing the war to an end. i