SUBMARINISM.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14892, 15 October 1918, Page 6

SUBMARINISM.

TRE^LEINSTER OUTRAGE. UNIVERSAL HORROR. AND DETESTATION. MR BALFOUR ON THE GERMAN BRUTE. (Australian aud N.Z. Cable Association London, Oct: 12. The Leinster victims include Canon Donning, n leading Diiblin Catholic clergyman, and Mr McCarron, ex-presi-dent of tho Irish Trade Union Congress Mr Balfour, nt a luncheon to American press delegates, referred to the Leinster outrage. The Germans, be said, professed to have changed their constitution, but they had apparently not changed their hearts. They were' brutes when they commenced the war, and they still rcirained briites. The i.Leinster carried no military stores, and I survt'd no h.Hilary purpose. The tor-)

podomg v .-,i.:i p;;nj barbarism, pure fri^htfuinefc^, tHibi-rateiy enacted in oroacl daylight. One. would have thought the Germans, would shrink from repeating the crime which brought America into the war, particularly at tho moment when'-. America, perhaps more than any other .belligerent, was deciding Germain's fate.

Tho "Freeman's Journal" sr.ys that .Prussian militarism is s\v ruthless in

dofrjat as in vietoi v

Thp> # "Irish Independent" hopes that retribution will -ue exacted. -

Tho "Irish Thr.es" trusts that recruiting in Ireland will bo stimulated.

London newspapers remark that the *o-callpd reformed Germany must be •judged-by- it-s deeds, not by its professions. They revive the Kaiser's re•{•onf message to 'the nation saying they will so wage war that when it is over they will be able to recall overy net with a flonY conscience. ,•

; A frequent comment in t London oi\ trip Leinater ease, is tliat. if Germany b.-is rea'Jy ended siriilitaris.ni, iv< Erz-be-rgtu" t-laims, the new civil power in Germany must bear the blame for the atrocity. It means that either Germany's new constitution is a sham, or is equally as odious as militarism as far as submarining is concerned. j ! Sir Edward Carson, writing in the ""Morning Post,'.'.says the Government j should before further German notes are accepted, insist on the perpetrators of the crime being delivered Tip and brought to justice. Admiral Sims estimates that the German submarines simultaneously operating never exceed thirteen, and average nine.