ARMED STEAMERS TO BE CONSIDERED WARSHIPS.

Colonist, Volume LVIII, Issue 14293, 23 December 1916, Page 5

ARMED STEAMERS TO BE CONSIDERED WARSHIPS.

GERMANY'S DECISION

PROMISE TO AMERICA TO BE IGNORED.

(Australian andN.Z.CableAssociation) J l .:.■'.: Amsterdam, Dec. 21. The V'Taglische Rundschau/' referring to Captain Blaikie, says the Government finally decided that England's armed commercial passenger steamers are men-of-war, and the promise given to America that before the torpedoing- these vessels must bo stopped falls to the ground.