SUBMARINE OUTRAGES.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13980, 10 January 1916, Page 5

SUBMARINE OUTRAGES.

GERMANY .AND THE UNITED

STATES

REPLY TO THE LUSITANIA NOTE

PROMISES OF REFORM

AMERICA LIKELY TO SWALLOW

THE PERSIA OUTRAGE

Washington Jan 7. has Hed " 0 American £ to rf tho Lusi _ to compensatioil for , ' *?. *!. , "^. , , nr . nt . P nflinfr the American-nvcs-lost, but conteuamg that the' dastyuctJbn of the Lusitania was an act ojf reprisal against the British blockade"; and also giving assurances that Mediterranean commanders will-not torpedo privately-owned vessels without-warning. . It:is. -unlikely., that.-America will protost 3gainst^ihe sinking of the Persia unless there is better proof that she was torpddoed.