The Archive · 1916

The United States

PRESS COMMENT

London, Jan, 3.

All the papers express horror and indignation at the latest submarine enormity.

"The Times" remarks: "Even Austrian impudence and cynicism cannot plead that five minutes was time enough to get hundreds of people into the poate, A repetition of such attache in these particular waters ought not. to be possible. We cleared submarines out of our home waters when we took the task seriously in hand. We should be able to baffle them along our chief route to the East as well.""

The "Daily Chronicle" says: "The case of the Persia is on all fours with that of the Lusitania. Wo, in this country, scarcely need fresh reminders of "the barbarity against which we are fighting in order to stiffen our determination to fight it down and out. That the murdered women and children of the Persia will be in our minds when the day of reckoning comes there can be no doubt whatever.""

The "Morning Post" comments: "Such disasters are 8 consequence of a war waged by an enemy who has consistently and cynically violate ed all the laws of Nations and the customs of humanity."

The "Daily Graphic" says: The Germans have added fresh infamy to the many they have already com-

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