The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-08
WHAT THE ENGLISH PAPERS THINK OF
 LUS|TAN|A'S LOSS
Heavy Responsibility Now Rests With United States Is the Consensus of
 Opinion

London, May S.-Gs4 a m)-'rhe Morn
 ing Post in an editorial on the Lustania.
 after remarl<ing on the elaborate warn ings issued at New York before the ship
 sailed says:
 We find it difficult to understand how.
 with such warnings and such ample op- portunities to take all precautions, the
 Lusitania was caught The suspicion
 that the vessels exact course must have been known to the captain of the sub
 marine is difficult to avoid but uncom- I fortable to accept"
 The Post states that the Dusitania
 was armed with formidable battery guns" and adds: But it appears that l New York legal niceties regarding inter-
 national law prevented the boat from
 carrying ammunition for those guns, un-
 der pain of being interned in neutra, port as a ship of war.
 But surely if the United States re- gards these submarine attacks as illegal
 it should follow that guns may be used
 on merchantmen to guard themselves | against such attacks without making the
 vessel which uses them ship of war. No Time for Condemnation | | to waste words in condemnation. We
 must set our teeth and go on with the war with more courage and determina- l tion'
 | The Times devotes long article in it's 1 news columns to the attitude of Ameri- cans in London on the disaster, saying:
 ',rhe sinking of the Lusitania has aroused | excitement and apprehension among | Americans in London.
 | The Times says it is not for Great Britain to speculate on the course to be
 adopted by the United States now that
 they are confronted with a situation
 which concerns that country as closely
 as it does Great Britain. "The members of MT. Wilson's minis
 try" says the Times, "are the guardians
 Of their national honor and the lives of
 their own people. Upon them rests a heavy responsibility, which we shall not seek to accentuate but the destruction of the Lusitania must assuredly hasten the day when every civilized power will feel constrained to join us" The Times adds that if no life had beer lost the character of the sinking of tho ! Lusitania and the intentions whicf prompted it would have remained unal tered The ship received no special maya protection because of the principles tha 1 apparently have been laid down tha q when so many large passenger steamers
  VI the coast of Great Britain singl Al steamer can be singled out for exceptiona H protection unless national interests malz such a step imperative. "1his, however" the Times concluded lis a subject upon which further en al lghtenment must be awaited For tn 9 moment. attention is concentrated wit d horror upon the appalling nature of tn M deed thus wrought after due advertise ment."
 H Details Not Important 8 The Graphic says that the exact detail # of the Lusitania in one sense are ur RI important, but the broad fact that shi M containing 2000 noncom batants and ner 8 trals was sent to her destruction wit ~ every prospect of an appalling loss ( M life. It adds:
 "The real significance of this new & is that such deliberate affront to net 4 trals is the weapon of a nation tha S knows itself defeated"
 M The Daily Telegraph declares that tt RI sinking of this floating hotel' affect 8 mot only ourselves but the Englisf 2 thinking people on the other side of tn 'H Atlantic"