Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-01-19
Replies to German Note by
Citing Lusitania and Arabic
Incidents and the Execution
of Miss CaVeII,
TEUTON CONVENTIONS
ARE FLATLY DENIED
Expresses Willingness to Have
Matter Submitted to lnveS-
tigation and Says Kaiser
Can't Stand Scrutiny,

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London, Jan. is, t6 p. m)
British official view of the German
note regarding the Baralong ease was
given out tonight as follows:
"The Germans claim that their
army and navy have observed dur
ing the present war the principles Of
international law and humanity and
that the German authorities take
care that all violations will he care
fully investigated and punished
some surprise Is expressed that
the nation whose armed forces have
been responsible for the sack of
Louvaln. the murder of hundreds of
unoffending men, women and chill
dren on the Lusitania and other
ships. the execution of Edith Cavell,
the introduction Of poisonous gases,
thepoison!ng OF wells, attempted tor
pedong of hospital ships and count
less other atrocities should describe
their methods of warfare as humane.
ut is further pointed out that il
would be interesting to know how
many German subjects, IL any, have
been punished for these atrocities.
The Germans claim that the Arabic
was torpedoed because the command
er of the submarine had the convic-
tion that the Arabic was about to
ram tho submarine. The true facts
are that the Arabic Was deliberately
sunk by a German submarine with
out warning and that she neither at
tempted to attack the submarine nor
escape from IL.
with regard to the destruction of
the British submarine Ella In Dan
ish waters by a German torpedo boat
destroyer ii is claimed that II came
to fight between the war vessels
and that the submarine defended It.
self with gun fire The true facts
are as follows:
eThe Germans found the subma-
rine stranded in neutral waters and
incapable of either offense or de-
fense The German destroyer fired a
torpedo at the E-13. The torpedo
exploded close to her At the same
moment the German destroyer fired
with all her guns and the commander
Of the E-23 whose submarine was
afre fore and aft and who was una
Bile to defend himself owing to be-
ing aground. gave orders to the crew
to abandon her. While the men We're
in the water they were fired on by
machine guns and with ahrapnel
The Germans defend ther action
in the case of the Ruel on the ground
that IL was a measure of reprisal in
accordance with measures announced
by the German government in Feb
ruary, 1915. II Is claimed that these
reprisals are legitimate. owing to the
action Of Great Britain in attempting
to cut off from Germany all imports
and starve the German people. The
Germans thus maintain their subma-
rine policy in consequence OF the
British measures against German
trade.
This is, Of course, quite untrue.
the exact opposite being the case. As
far back as December. 1914, Admiral
Won Tirpitz foreshadowed the sub
marine blockade OF Great Britain and
submarine attacks were made on a
merchant ship and a hospital ship
on January 80 and February L. re-
spectively Moreover, as far back
as September, 1914, Dutch ship,
with a cargo OF grain for Dublin and
Belfast. was sunk by the Karlsruhe
and the American ship w. p. Frye
whs sunk on January 2s.
Germany Began IL.
Further. on February 4, the Ger
man government declared their in
tention Of nstituting o general sub
marine blockade of Great Britain and
Ireland with the avowed purpose Of
cutting off all supplies from these
islands and this blockade was put in
to effect February rs.
1T was only on March IL that the
British government put into force as
a means of reprisais. measures
against German trade which the Ger
man government now tries to main
tain were the cause Of their subma
rine policy.
Tho Germans maintain that in
the cases OF the Arapic, the E-la ana
the Ruel they were only aiming at
the destruction of hostile ships and
In no wise the destruction of helpless
persons. The death roll of the Ara
bic, the Smelling OF British sailors as
they were swimming ashore after
abandoning the Ella and the firing
on the crew of the Ruel who we're
TO save themselves In the
boats sufficiently answers this claim
with regard to the German re-
fusal to submit the Baralong case and
the three cases put forward by the
British government for investigation
by an impartial neutral tribunal, this
action seems hard 20 explain If the
Germans are really so convinced as
they say of the guilt of the British