The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-12
WE'LL FIRE AT
DEUTSCHLAND ON
/ SIGHT--ENGLAND
Refuses to Consider UnderSea
Liner as Trade Ship.
Base Claim Solely Upon Struc-
ture of Vessel.
ITO DISREGARD U S. RULING
Neither Passengers Nor Mails
viii Protect New Divers.
Further Protests Are To Be
Made by British.
10 BISREGARD U S. RULING
Neither Passengers Nor Mails
Will Protect New Divers.
Further Protests Are To Be
Made by British.

tz-asl,ire+op .J,1ly 12.-British naval
vessels will fire upon tne Iefii is-
submarine liner Deutschland AZ
sirht.1 1t will be treated as a war
siSi1 REGARDLESS of any ruling the
United States government may make
n the Deutschland is destroyed py
n warship, the state department VIII
make no inquiries -,
eThese facts We're made pain a. 5ile
Rfifish embassy and at the state DC
partment today.
Pho British and French embassies
protested to the state departhleEe
n aainst this governments acton IN
,,5,,r,ittirg the Deutschland to enter
= - Aroer{can mort They protested,
also. against permitting the Deutsch-
land to take on provisions. thsy pe
clnred to the state department tuae
TN Deutschland is warsh1p anu
therefore. is entitled 10 none oL elIo
riehts enjoyed by a peaceable mer-
cfiantman.
The British View.
AZ the British embassy the position
ofisfhe British government was out
lintd as follows:
q view of the methods of the SUD
marine warfare employed by GERMANY
in the present war the Oe ..1os.a1 ii'
napst be considered as a war VeSseI.
No enemy vessel moving under the
water can be. considered by Great
Britain as anything but warshln ana
it will. be treated accordingly.
VI would be absurd to treat a SUD-
nsaAiue vessel any other way. If an
a4ties4 soldier should see helmet be
hind a hedge the presumption would
he that under the helmet was a Ger
man soldier with a rifle in his hands
and the allied soldier would take
shot at him.
The British-and the allies'-view
Is that submarine vessels ought not
bsl permitted to take, on supplies at
ait in a neutral port. Norway and
Sweden adopted a rule during TINS
war prohibiting access to their Jurts-
dfetions of beIligerent submarine YES
sells and aeroplanes.
Cannot Tell Difference.
The rnovena ents of a submarine YES
sell may be quite invisible and its &C
tons cannot be controlled as can
those of an ordinary vessel 1t can
dive quickly and there would be every
reason for believing that one seen al
sea was waTship. The submarine Is
essentially a war vessel and to treat il
otherwise would be to invite disaster
The allied embassies in Washington
were DESTROYS of "dissipating the SEN
tiInent that the allied governments re-
garded the Deutschland as peaceable
merchant Ship it was declared at the
embassy
1--WE have communicated our point
of view tc the United States govern
ment," an EN- bassy official said. 1T is
incorrect to say that we are not pro-
testing and are letting the thing slide
by All the allied governments share
the British view
1T was said another formal protest
against the admission of the Deutsch-
land to an American port will be pre-
scented TO the state department by the
Italian government.
The British protest to the state de
partment means that the right of visi
ana search warning will be denied tC
the Deutschland, to the Bremen and
to all other German submarine mer
chantmen. 1t will make no difference
from the British point of view, wheth
er or not the submarine liner carries
mails and passengers.
1.-THE state department received from
the treasury the text of the following
telegram from Collector of Customs
Ryan at Baltimore:
I'm company with Captain Hughes
have made a thorough inspection O
the Deutschland. All spaces eXcep
those occupied by cargo and oil wer
visited. There is no evidence that tn
out extensive changes.
Fl reaffirm my statement that thi
ship is merchant vessel"
Acting Secretary of State Polk sal,
the report would be considered to
gether with the report to be made b
naval officers before the department
viii pass officially on the status of tn
vessel.