Bisbee daily review., 1915-06-06
HOLDING GERMANY 10 rAE POINT

HOLDING GERMANY TO THE POINT.
 The German foreign office probably realizes by this time that the Lusitania was no more "warship" than the Titanic was. It is probably convinced that there were no canon aboard and that the ship was not trans port carrying armed Canadian troops. We hope real ta, this government had permitted infringement neutrality any respect whatever in it's relations with the Lustania; that even the American law against passenger ships carrying explosives" was broken be cause We have never cassed rifle cartridges explosives goods have always been carried by liners
 If the German government really believed these mis representations Germany has been sadly betrayed by the bunders of confidential aees the credulity of her high officials.
 The further contention that the Lustaua is to be re- garded as warship because she expressly ncud ed in the navy list by the British admiralty" assume strange lack of intelligence the part of the public Nearly every important passenger ship in the world so listed All tho big British liners eubsidzed by the government with the understanding that tey may be taken over in Of So the German lines. The Lusitania which had been used except in peaceful commerce, was "warshp" than are the German liners lying idle in the North River at New York
 All such pettifcgging arguments may be swept away, and will be- The big facts in Germanys attitude, her reply the American note of May 13 and in her current activity that she chooses ig nore the presidents noble appeal her honor and her conscience and that she spar time the hope of delaying effective by this country while she continues her submarine campaign unchanged the most effective means of beating England. And it seems as obvious as ever that waging this lawIess warfare she cares little for the injury she may do to neutral nations and almost as little for neutral opinion
 The issue therefore between Germany and thc United States is becoming clear and the two sides threaten to become irroconcIabe. Germany is determined to use every means power to crush her enemy, at the risk of crushing ueutrals who happen to be tween She respects us no than she did Belgium. To our demand she disayow such the sinking Of the Lusitania make rcparaton for the Americans slain and promise to repeat the offence Germanys last note made this disappointing reply German com manders are no longer able to observe the customary regulations of the prize law which before they always followed
 Those regulations require that enemy merchant ships must not be sunk without letting the sailors and pass. engars escape They are the very essence of information al sea law and have been recognized heretofore by every civilized nation in the world in every of modern times
 There is the crucial point in Germauys position, and the menace to HCe honor peace of every neutral nation It is Germanys assumption that she alone has the right to break with impunity the law Of mankind and to say what shall be international law for the world
 hre own necessity" justfes everything. It is as if a single citizens in an American city should himself to the teeth possession of the streets, announce new police regulations of his own the street traffic and claim the right shoot down anybody who voluntarily disobeyed his rules
 Any American has as much right in the war zone, to within three miles of the German coast the Germans themselves have He has a right sail those on unarmod vessels under any flag. An the seas the free highways of the nations in peace and and it is outawrg for an maton to order others of those high ways blockade of the enemys ports is permitted under established rules, Great Britain herself has not strictly lived up 10 the rules, and has committed some acts of outlawry But Great Britain has impered only properly rights she has uniformly respected the life Of neutrals and even of noncombatant enemies Germany to strike at England wades through the blood of innocent neutr5ls and then planes them getting killed.
 Gernauys supreme obect is Go prevent Great Britain from obtaining war supplies. Her object is legitimate but her methods are intoerable Sine has right to con dscate or destroy any ammunition that she dnds sn route % he sno4y Bat in doing she hes nc