The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-08
Pain IN FIRM
PROTEST TERMS
ACTS CRIMINAL
Cant Substitute Destruction for
Right of Capture.
But Spain Doesn't Break Neu-
trality With Germany.
WORKS FOR WORLD PEACE
Govt Holds Indemnity Not Suf-
ficient ReparatiOn.
Nations Honor in Jeopardy
VIII Float Big Loan.
Can't Substitute Destruction for
Right of Capture.
But Spain Doesn't Break Neu-
trality With Germany.
WORKS FOR WORLD PEACE
Govt Holds Indemnity Not Sui
ficient PREPARATION.
Nations Honor in Jeopardy
VIII Float Big Loan.

Madrid. Feb S-Couched in firm
est tones of protest and characteriz-
ing Germany's new sea methods as
"outside the legal principles of inter-
Irrational life" Spain has forwarded
her note to Berlin in reply to the Ger
man governments announcement or
the barred zone"
1t concludes with the expression
that Spain docs not doubt that the
Imperial government will find means
-of giving satisfaction to Spain S
.claims."
These claims, the note sets forth,
''are based on the inexorable duty
which binds government to protect
THE lives of its subjects and maintain
the integrity of its sovereignty, so that
the course of national existence may
not be interrupted" They are that
SSpains shipping and the lives of her
citizehs be not menaced by substitute
ling by Germany for the indisputable
fright of capture in certain cases, a
pretended right of destruction"
Holds to Strict Neutrality.
.Germany's new warfare it is de-
clared, caused a very painful i'm
preston on the Spanish governm ent."
The attitude of strict neutrality
which Spain adopted from the begin
ming and has maintained with loyalty
and unsuitable frmnesS, the note
continues. gives her the right to ex-
pect that the lives of her subjects en-
gagged in sea trade should not be
placed in such grave peril It also
gives her the right to expect that that
trade should not be troubled nor di-
minished by such an increase in the
extent of the zones in which the i'm
perial government insists that, in or
der to attain it's ends, it must use all
weapons and suppress all limitations
which it has hitherto imposed upon
its methods of naval warfare.
Can't Admit Such Warfare.
Even before the imperial govern
ment mad set aside these restrictions
MS majesty's government had protest.
ed. holding them insufficient to COM
ply with the prescriptions of national
maritime law. But the methods Of
war announced by Germany are beirg
scarried to such an unprecedented ex-
IRENE that the Spanish government,
considering its rights and the require
s'ments of its neutrality, must with still
more reason protest calmly but firmly
to the imperial German government
and must make at the same time tile
necessary reservation imposed by the
legitimate presumption of inevitable
responsibility which the imperial Ger
man government assumes, principally
in view of the loss of life, which its
attitude may cause"
The note details at length Spain's
complete neutrality and her efforts
adds that Spain cannot admit the
Exceptional methods of warfare"
New Credit for Public Works
Madrid, Feb. S.-Premier Ro-
manones and the Duke of Alba, min
lister of the interior, met the minority
Headers at a two hours conference to-
day and asked their support for the
immediate passage of a number of
measures, including a credit of a bill
hon pesetas for public works.
Among the projected bills is one for
the reform of the foreign banking
services, another for the nationalist
ton of exterior loans, a third for an
Increase in the income tax and a
Fourth for a substitution of a tax on
the profits of privileged enterprises
Instead of the present tax on war pro-
fits
A measure was also discussed re-
speeding the tobacco monopoly. The
4minority leaders agree to all the pro-
posals except that for a billion pesetas
Ecredit and bill dealing with the
liquor question. These two matters
were reserved for a further confer
ence.
Referring to the Spanish note to
Germany the Diario Universal SAYS
that the whole country is unanimous
" in favor of maintaining neutrality
but that attitude does not exclude ac-
lion in the defense of national inter-
-ests or for the protection of national
dignity.
mo one wants to abandon neutral
ity," the paper says, but no one wants
9either to abandon the interest and
dignity of Spain before the caprices or
necessities of foreign powers"