America

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 28, 2 June 1915, Page 6

America

THE GERMAN NOTE. [UnWID }***«■ A»3OCIATIOX. J Amsterdam, June 1. The Vossic-he #eitung says if America allows its citizens to risk England's recklessness and then blames Germany she is no longer neutral. BRITAIN BEARS THE BRUNT. "* \. Washington, June 1. The text of the German Note has been published. , It confirms the cabled summary and avers that Germany does not intend to attack neutral ships in the war zone not guilty of- hostile acts. German officers have been repeatedly instructed to avoid such attacks, and if neutrals suffered it was due to mistaken identification, and in some cases was. attributable to Britain's use of the flag, ■ together with suspicious or culpable behaviour by the masters of the ships-. Herr von Jagow, interviewed by an American correspondent in Berlin, said ; that from the outset Germany was willing to abandon the submarine war on merchantmen if England raised the embargo on foodstuffs and raw material, on the conditional contraband list. It was England's fault and not Germany's that,America's well-meant proposals failed. The question of foodstuffs and raw materials was not a question of necessity for Germany, but of principle. Germany had shown she could not be starved out. She might be short of some particular foodstuffs, but had enough to live oh mid con.', timie the struggle. Similarly it was true of raw materials; she was able to get along even if imports were cut; off. But Germany objected to B'ri-j tain's cool assumption that when she; was unable to defeat the German armies legitimately on the battle-iield she was entitled to force the nation to its knees by economic pressure, disregarding all the accepted precepts and ■ regulations. There was no precedent! for a siege of The civilian population' of a whole nation in its own land, with] no possibility of escape. Germany: would fight such an unjustified method of war with all the means at her disposal. Hen- von Jagow said he was unable .to tell how the German Note would be received, as he had no means of communicating with the Ambassador at Washington. They had no cables and their wireless was read or interfered with by the British, and; Germany was therefore cut off from America and working in the dark. THE CULF LIGHT. Washington. June 1. Mr Gerard (American Ambassador at Berlin) has cabled that the:Gull' Light was torpedoed by. mistake. I