River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1916-04-27
Quoting it, it unhappily does not stand

alone.
Sussex Case Only One instance.
On the contrary, the government of
the United States is forced by recent
events to conclude that it is only one
instance even though one of the most
extreme and most distressing in
stances of the deliberate method and
spirit of indiscriminate destruction of
merchant vessels of all shorts, nation
alities, and destinations which have
become more and more unmistakable
as the activity of German undersea
vessels of war has in recent months
been quickened and extended.
America Protests War Zone.
The Imperial Government will recall
that when, in February, 1915, it an
nounced it's intention of treating the
waters surrounding Great Britain and
Ireland as embraced within the seat of
war and Of destroying all merchant
ships owned by it's enemies that might
be found within that zone of danger
and warned all vessels, neutral as we'll
as belligerent, to keep out Of the wa
ters thus prescribed, or to enter them
at their peril, the government of the
United States earnestly protested.
1t took the position that such a pol
icy could not be pursued without con-
slant gross and ralpable violations of
the accepted law of nations; particu-
larly if submarine craft were to be en-
plOyed as it's instruments, inasmuch
as the rules prescribed by that law,
rules founded on the principles of hui
ton of lives of noncombatants at sea,
could not in the nature of the case be
observed by such vessels.
1t based it's protest on the ground
that persons of neutral nationality and
vessels Of neutral ownership would be
exposed to extreme and intolerable risk
and that no right to close any part of
the high seas could lawfully be as
serted by the Imperial Government in
the circumstances then existing.
Based on Law of Humanity.
Y The law of nations in these matters
upon which the government of the
United States based that protest is
not of recent origin or founded upon
merely arbitrary principles set up by
convention. 1t is based, on the con-
trary, upon manifest principles of hui
mainly and has long been established
with the approval and by the express
assent of all civilized nations.
Carry on Ruthless Destruction.
In pursuance of this policy of sub
marine warfare against the commerce
of it's adversaries, thus announced and
thus entered upon in despite of the
solemn protest of the government of
the United States, the commanders of
the Imperial Governments undersea
vessels have carried on practices of
such ruthless destruction which have
made it more and more evident as the
months have gone by that the I'm
perial Government has found it imprac-
ticable to put any such restraints upon
them as it had hoped and promised to
put.
Assurances Are Disregarded
Again and again the Imperial Gov
eminent has given it's solemn assur-
ances to the government of the United
States that at least passenger ships
would not be thus dealt with, and yet
it has repeatedly permitted it's under
sea commanders to disregard those
assurances with entire impunity.
No Escape Allowed to Crews.
Vessels of neutral ownership, even
vessels of neutral ownership bound
from neutral port to neutral port,
have been destroyed along with the
vessels of belligerent ownership in
constantly increasing numbers. Some