'The German threat of ''a vigorous submarine war' has become an annual event and in itself is of little consequence, but, taken in conjunction with the statement that "there can be no question of any deviating measures" and the in: structions to Count Bernstorff "to inform the United States that the assurances given in connexion with the Lusitania apply only to unarmed merchantmen," it must be read as another indication of a great effort by the enemy to burst the bonds that are crippling him. Count Reventlow has admitted in the "Deutsche Tageszeitung" that aarraloce propetin the tightening of the blockade "cannot possibly be a matter df indifference to the German Empire and to the German people.
It is the strongest of Britain's ud presumably his demand absolutely ruthless warfare' is answered by the announcement, made to the United States. Germany promised President Wilson that liners should not be torpedoed, and she sleo undertook that when merchantmen were to be sunk an opportunity should be given for their personnel to escape death. Finding herself in steel fetters and unable to exact a decisive result in any direction, Germany raised the question of armed merchantmen,
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