Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1915-07-16

ing from Germany, even when neutral
property.
Just as 1t was also with the Beers,
the German people are now to be
given the choice of perishing from
starvation with it's women and chill
dren or relinquishing its independence.
"A War in SeIf-Defense."
nWbile our enemies thus loudly and
onenly proclaimed war without mercy
until our utter destruction, we were
| conducting a war in self-defense Tor
orr national existence and for the sake
of peace of an assured permanency.
We have been obliged to adopt a sub
marine warfare 10 meet the declared
| intentions of our enemies and the
! method of warfare adopted by them III
| contravention of international law.
with all it's efforts in principle to
| protect neutral life and property from
damage as much as possible, the Ger
man government recognized unreser-
vedly in it's memorandum OF February
4 that the interests OF neutrals might
| suffer from the submarine warfare.
| will also understand and appreciate
that in the fight for existence which
| has been forced upon Germany by it's
| adversaries. and announced by them,
| it is the scored duty of the imperial
| government to do all within it's power
| to protect and save the lives OF Ger
man subjects. If the imperial govern
| ~, tic ,1ti
| it would be guilty before God and his
| tory of the violation of those principles
| Of highest humanity which are the
| foundation of every national existence.
THE case of the Lusitania shows
with horrible clearness to what
| jeopardiZing of human lives the man
ner of conducting war employed by
our adversaries leads. In the most di-
rect contradiction of international law,
all distinctions between merchantmen
and war vessels have been obliterated
by the order to British merchantmen
to arm themselves and to ram subma-
rines and the promise of rewards
therefor, and neutrals who use mer-
chantmen as travellers thereby have
been exposed in an increasing degree
to all the dangers Of war.
Defends Lusitania Sinking.
eff the commander of the German
submarine which destroyed the Lusi-
| tania had caused the crew and passen-
gers to take to the boats before firing
a torpedo this would have meant the
sure destruction Of his own vessel.
| After the experiences in sinking much
| smaller and less seaworthy vessels it
was to be expected that mighty ship
| like the Lusitania would remain above
water long enough even after the tor
| pedoing to permit passengers to enter
| the ships boats.
circumstances of very peculiar
| kind, especially the presence on board
of large quantities of highly explosive
| materials (word omitted, possibly
"dissipated') this expectation.
I'm addition, it may be pointed out
that if the Lusitania had been spared
thousands of cases of munitions would
have been sent to Germany's enemies
| and thereby thousands of German
mothers and children robbed of bread
winners.
I'm the spirit of friendship where
with the German nation has been i'm
bued toward the union and it's inhabi-
| tants since the earliest days of it's
existence, the imperial government
| will also be ready to do all it can
during the present war also, to pre-
vent the jeopardizing of lives of Amer
lean citizens.
"The imperial government, there
| fore, repeats the assurances that
American shipping will not be him
dered in the prosecution of legitimate
shipping and the lives Of American
! citizens in neutral vessels shall not
be placed in jeopardy.
Will Instruct Submarines.
"In order to exclude any unfor-
seen dangers to American passenger
steamers, made possible in view OF
the conduct of maritime war by Ger
manys adversaries, German subma-
rines will be instructed to permit the
/ free and safe passage OF such pas
senger steamers, when made recogniz-
| dUlC ny 0pCSAdl Lidi Mugs dhO hOIihSN
| a reasonable time in advance
1.-THE imperial government, however,
confidently hopes that the American
| government will assume to guarantee
that these vessels have no contraband
on board, details of arrangements for
the unhampered passage of these ves-
sells to be agreed upon by the naval
| authorities on both sides.
| "In order to furnish adequate ia
cilities for travel across the Atlantic
| for American citizens, the German
government submits for consideration
proposal to increase the number OF
available steamers by installing in
| passenger service a reasonable num-
Der of neutral steamers under the
American flag, the exact number to
be agreed upon under the same con-
dition as the above mentioned Ameri-
| can steamers.
THE imperial government believes
Ii can assume that In this manner
| adequate facilities for travel across the
Atlantic ocean can be afforded Ameri-
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