SUBMARINE CLAIMED AS LEGITIMATE WEAPON.
GERMAN PRESS ATTEMPTS TO JUSTIFY CAMPAIGN.
"HUMANE CONSIDERATIONS OF OUR EXISTENCE AS A STATE" New York, April 24. Messages from Berlin state that the majority of the papers commented at length on the American Note. Some consider there is a probability of Germany attempting to meet Mr. Wilson's demands. The Berlin Zeitung am Mittag declares that the Note will not electrify Germany, as was reported. Germany has been willing to go to the utmost limits to meet the United States ever since the American Government sought to restrict and even make ineffective our weapon of necessity." The journal declares, "We, as has been proved thousands of times to every thinking man, have so far guarded the interests of neutrals that n* clash of opinion has arisen among us. " To the last man the German people are united and will not let the submarine be wrenched from our hands. It is the weapon we noed, because it has shown itself effective. We use it according to the principles of justice and humanity, always invoked in the American 'Notes, and will use it in future because it is our right and because humane considerations of our existence as a State and the future of our wives and children compel us. Therefore we await with calmness and determination what Mr. Wilson again has to say.'i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16213, 26 April 1916, Page 7
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227SUBMARINE CLAIMED AS LEGITIMATE WEAPON. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16213, 26 April 1916, Page 7
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