" PANIC-STRICKEN."

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 13599, 29 January 1915, Page 3

" PANIC-STRICKEN."

THE EFFEICT UPON GERMANS IN

AMERICA

The Daily Telegraph's New York correspondent shows what a blow Admira*! Sturdee's brilliant victory has been, to German prestige m America, and declares that the Germans there are simply panic-stricken. It seems impossible (he says), but it is absolutely truo, that the majority of Germans ,m the United States — there are several millions here — believe that the cruisers are still proudly afloat, and that tho news of the disaster has been invented by the British Admiralty for political purposes to prevent a popular uprising m England ! In the meantime, from all parts of South America, where trade has been greatly interrupted by the German raiders, there come messages of jubilation. "It is only a question of time," says the . NW ' 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 Admiva-1 Cradock, and the havoc of their mines m the North Sea count for little or nothing m the opinion of naval experts. The British Navy has already, they pay> won a victory for the Allies of greater value than any victory on land during the entire war. The victory wag the feat of forcing the Germans to bottle up their warships m the Kiel Canal and . to leave their merchant marine rotting- . m ports all over the world. The sheer superiority of the big-gun ships accomplished this." "Panic-stricken," says one despatch. Panic-stricken certainly is the word which describes the condition, of the little German coterie m New York who have been responsible for ±\w coaling and provisioning of German raiders ever since, the war began, and "whose commissions are now nearly gone.