Second Edition. In the West

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 84, 13 April 1915, Page 6

Second Edition. In the West

FAILURE AT BEAUSEJOUR. ENEMY MOWED DOWN BY OUR ARTILLERY. {Received 2 p.m.") Paris, April 12. Official.—The Germans on the Bth attempted to retake Beausejour. After H violent cannonade, the infantry at j tacked in force, being Jed by volunteers from all the regiments concerned on the east and west salients to the north fort. Our machine guns and artillery caught them in the .flank and literally mowed them down, and few regained their trenches. MAD DOC OF EUROPE. \ AN AMERICAN DENUNCIATION. ■ ."Do Americans/' asks the New York '•Herald," "realise the full meaning of tiie 'German official announcement that tnc seas *u: rounding Great Jiri'aih oi'd Ireland, including the whole Knglisn Channel, aie hereby declared to be military zone?

''lt means chat Germany declares war upon the entire world. Ships belonging not only to ti>e nawuus wth which Germany is at war, but also those belonging to neutral nations—to the United States, to Italy, to Holland, to Sweden, to Norway, to Denmark, to Greece, to Spain—are, according to this fiendish document, to be destroyed even 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 hand-s because Germany, apostle to 'kultur,' has decided to set at defiance every law, human and divine, and treat all international conventions bearing her signature as so many 'scraps of paper.' ,

"That the German naval authorities dimly perceive 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 on January 31. " 'Qui s'excuse s'accuse.' "Searching examination has failed to reveal any order such as the 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? 5 Will the Administration silently acquiesce in this latest German effort to put into practice the savage theories laid down in the German General Staff's war book and in the works of that half-baked plagiarist of Maehfavelli, Bornhardi?

"Whatever the Administration may do, one thing is certain. If a single American life be sacrificed by uniformed German pirates our people will exact the bitterest, fullest retribution.

"Judging from this latest specimen of German barUarity, Mr Roosevelt i.; right in his dew that the United States may yet be called upon to join forces with the Allies and help chain up the mad dog of Europe." .