Washington, Sept. 12 President Roosevelt has thrown down {he gauntlet and the next move, probably as important as any since she entered the war, must b> made by Germany. Germany han been ordered out of the waters between America and Iceland, in the view of competent observers here, If she obeys, the Battle of the Atlantic is already lost to her. If she stays in these waters. the Ameri-dan Navy will join the British Navy in destroying German naval and air units raiding the Atlantic sea-lanes between the United States and Iceland. pain Ree Җ. A unpublishable, sources for information."
It is believed here that Germany can hardly obey Mr. Roosevelt's injunction, and therefore an increase in the number of incidents between German and American craft is to de expected. Isolationists will unquestionably growl, but the evidence inst Germany in incidents de. cribed by the President is such that they must take their cue from Berlin if they attack him.
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