THE MAD DOG OF EUROPE

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2428, 6 April 1915, Page 5

THE MAD DOG OF EUROPE

AN AMERICAN DENUNCIATION.

"Do Americans," asks the New York "Herald," "realise the full, meaning- of the Gerpian official announcement that tho seas surrounding Great Britain and Ireland, including tho whole English Channel, are hereby declared to be a military zone? "It means that Germany declares war upon the entire world. Ships belonging not only to tile nations With which Germany is at" war,-but also those belonging to neutral nations—to the United States, to Italy, to Holland, to Sw6den, to Norway, to Denmark, to Greece, to Spain—are, according td this .fiendish document, to be destroyed oven when it may not be possible to preserve crews and passengers from danger. It means that every American going to Northern Europe, or leaving it, even on a neutral vessel, will take his life in his hands because _ Germany, apostle of 'kultur,' has decided to set at defiane'e everv law, human and divine, and treat all international conventions bearing her signature as so many 'scraps of paper.' "That the Gorman naval authorities dimly peroeive the ruffianism' of their decision is' proved by their attempt to justify it by referring to abuse of neutral flags having been ordered by the British Government oil January. 31. "'Qui s'excuse s'accitse.' "Searching examination has failed to reveal any order such as tho one 'mentioned in the German, notification. It seems clear that, as usual, the Germans are merely excusing their ferocity by falsehood. "The question is, What are we going to do? Will the Administration silently scquiesce in this latest German effort to put into practice the savage theories luid down in tho .German General Staff' 6 war book and in the works of that halfuaked plagiarist of Maeliiavelli, Berniiardi P "Whatever the Administration may do, one thing is certain: If a single American life be sacrificed by uniformed Gennan pirates our people will exaot the bitterest, fullest retribution. "Judging from this latest specimen of Gorum barbarity, Mr. Roosevelt is right in hi 3 viewjhat tho United States may yet bo called upon to join forces with tho Allies and help chain up tho mad dog of Europe."

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