“PANIC STRICKEN.”

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 144592, 29 January 1915, Page 7

“PANIC STRICKEN.”

THE EFFECT UPON GERMANS IN AMERICA. The Daily Telegraph’s New York correspondent shows what a blow Admiral Sturdee’s brilliant victory lias been to German prestige in America, and declares that the Germans there are simply panic-stricken. It seems impossible (he says), but it is absolutely true, that the majority of Germans in the United States—there are several millions here—believe that the cruisers are still proudly afloat, and that the news of the disaster has been invented by the British Admiralty for political piirposes to prevent a popular uprising in England! In the meantime, iron) all parts of South America, where trade has been greatly interrupted by the Gorman raiders, there come messages of jubilation. “It is only a question of time,” says the New York Tribune, “before the German ting disappears from the sea. “In tlie big stakes at issue the submarine raids of the Germans, their victory over the squadron of Admiral Cradoek. and the havoc of their mines in the North Sea count for little or nothing in the opinion of naval experts. .The British Navy has already, they say, won a victory for the Allies of greater value than any victory on laud during the entire war. The victory was the feat of forcing the Germans to bottle up their worships in the Kiel On mil and to leave their merchant marine rotting in ports all over the world. The sheer superiority of the big-gun ships accomplished this.” “Panic-stricken.” says one dispatch. Panic-stricken certainly is _ the word u'liich describes the condition of the little German coterie in New Y’ork who have been responsible for the coaling and provisioning of German raiders over since tbo war began, find whoso commissions aro now n« ) goua.