The Daily News. MONDAY, APRIL 9, 1917. GERMANY AGAINST THE WORLD.
A wise publicist stated not long ago that the Germans had written moie about psychology than anyone else, and knew less about it. Their diabolical submarine policy, aimed at every country daring to trade witOi any of the Allies, shows they have missed the mark Sgain, as they did at the outset), wlien they calculated that Britain would not go to the length of joining in war against them. No doubt they weiglied ( the risk, but felt the results to be secured were worth it. They mole tlian risked war with America; they invited it. They had for the past two years been goading the great Republic, which showed a patience and forbearance without parallel in tile history of nations, and no.w they have arrayed against them the mighty forces of a nation numbering over one hundred million people, with thousands of workshops that can rapidly be converted into munition manufactories, with almost unlimited financial resources, and a navy the third largest in the world. The Germans have invited war with the United States, and more. They have challenged the free people of the world to carry on their lawful and legitimate maritime pursuits. It is therefore not surprising that now that the United States lias declared war, the great South American republics, as well as the republic of Cuba, arc also shaping that way. Spain is chafing under the blockade instituted by the German submarines; Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, who have been continually insulted and made to suffer cruelly by the inhuman warfare waged by the Huns, would join the Allies to-morrow if they but dared. The Germans, apart from their dupes—Austria, Bulgaria, and Turkey—have no friends; on the contrary, they have practically the whole world arrayed against them. It is an outraged world, that will never rest content until the Huns are punished for their infamous conduct. Possibly they realise what is in store for them, and are acting on the principle that they may as well be hanged for a flieep as a lamb. Hence the atrocities and devastation in those parts of France they recently have been compelled to relinquish.. The unrestricted submarine campaign is their last card, and they are playing it for all they are wortlj, but that it will Tail, as all their other means have failed, there can be no doubt. We have only to read -what Admiral Sir John Jellicoe has said lately to realise that Britain has no easy task before her ill coping with and defeating the bh'u-
murines, but America's active co-opera-tion will go a long way to solve the problem, for she has plenty of light craft, not to speak of her torpedo deEtroyers, which can usefully be employed .11 convoying ships across the Atlantic and policing shipping lanes in other directions. The mercantile ships l are rapidly being armed, and it should not bo long before every ship will be in a position to fight the submarines. The ■.rouble is now that the submarines keep below the surface and lire their torpedoes, which tiln British First Sea Lord says makes the campaign more difficult to counter, hut the Navy is full of resource and will devise means for effectuallv meeting the new development, as they have successfully met every other measure attempted by the desperate enemy of mankind.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 April 1917, Page 4
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