Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-07
Lord Robert Cecil Shows Sub
marine 0utrages Com
menCed Before British
Blockade Was Threatened,
PEACE NOT POSSIBLE
WITHOUT GUARANTEES
Position Of England Is That
PruSSian MiIitarism Must
Be Crushed Before World
Can Be Safe.
nv MORNING JOURNAL SPECIAL Ls.sso wlssl


London, May 6 { 500 p. m.)--De-
clining to comment on the purely
American German questions involved
in the German reply to the American
note on submarine warfare, Lord
Robert Cecil. minister of war trade
and parliamentary under secretary
for foreign affairs, in behalf of the
foreign office. gave the Associated
Press today statement dealing with
the charges against Great Britain and
Germany's avowed desire for peace.
The statement follows.
The reply of the German govern
ment to the American note of April
20 respecting submarine warfare, is
not communication upon which any
general comment can properly be
made in this country as the questions
at issue concern the United States and
Germany, and any interference by a
third party would be presumptuous.
Alleges Measurements.
Since, however, the German note
contains certain misstatements of fact
representing the actions of Great
Britain. the following observations
may not be though out of place. The
German government states that they
have SO far as is possible instituted a
far reaching restraint upon the use
of the submarine weapon solely in
consideration of neutral interests and
in spite of the fact that these re-
strictions were necessarily of advant-
age to Germany's enemies.
1T is alleged that no such consid-
GRAFTON ever has been shown to neu-
trails by Great Britain and her allies.
''Do the facts bear out these asser-
tions? So far as is known, the meas
ures taken by Great Britain against
German trade have cost no neutral
life. Great Britain maintains that
they are in accord with the principles
of international law and is prepared
to make good that claim. They can
surely compare favorably. so far az
consideration to neutrals is concern
ed, with a policy whose fruits are seen
in tragedies of the Lusitania, the Ara
bic and the Sussex.
Refers to Chronology.
THE Germans maintain that il was
owing to the illegal conduct of the
British warfare that Germany was
forced to resort to her submarine
campaign. This Is not the first time
that the Germans have attempted to
Justify their submarine warfare on
prisal against the action of the Brit
ish government in cutting off supplies
from Germany. The following lists
of incidents, in chronological order,
should suffice to dispose of this plea
September, f914-The Duchess
Maria, from California for Dublin and
Belfast with cargo of grain for the
civil population, sunk by the German
cruiser Karlsruhe
October 90, 1914-The Amirai
Ganteaume with 1000 unarmed ref
ugees sunk by German submarine.
december, 1914-Admiral Won Tir-
pitt foreshadowed adoption of sub
marine campaign.
January 81, 1915-American ship
william p. Frye, with wheat from
Seattle for Queenstown, sunk by Ger
man auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Will
helm.'
Mote The William p. Frye was
sunk by the Prinz Eitel Friedrich, ac
cording to the record.)
When Blockade War Announced.
February 4, 1915-Declaration by
the German government of their in
tention to institute general subma-
rine blockade of Great Britain and
Ireland with the avowed purpose of
cutting off all supplies from these is
lands This blockade was put into
effect officially February IS, although
it was matter of fact, merchant
ship had been sunk by a German
submarine at the end of January.
1T was not until March II, 1915,
that the present measures against
German trade were put in force by