The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-15
Consul Frost Declares II Is De-
Iiberate Murder.
He's Been in Thick of 1t at Post
in Queenstown, Ireland.
HE INVESTIGATED 65 SINkINGS
Some Show Ffendish Delight in
TOrturing Sailor Victims.
Murder Roll Is Bound to Grow.
Asserts This American.

N0te-The following interview with wes-
ley Frost consul at Queenstown gives the
tIermany's horror war as reflected bv the
sea graveyard of the coast OF Ireland Frost
more than any other American, has seen
the fruits OF this submarine warfare in
twisted. mangied corpses at the Queenstown
docks and morgues.
Back home for a rest from grresome
Iabors from which he never Filtered Frost
WITH the special perm. ssfon of the censor
SNIP mas given this story of his impress
slons 20 the United Press.
Washington. June 1.-THE subna-
r1ne war grows more barbarous every
day. =. 1t has now reached the plane
Of deliberate murder for every ship
sunk and will so continue to the end.
1t is not the fault of the Germans that
every torpedo does not produce a Lusi-
Cania massacre"
That is the kaiser's unrestricted sub
marine warfare, in the words OF the
man who probably knows more about
the human side of the sea tragedy
than any other-certainIy more than
any other American
He is Wesley Frost. American con-
sui at Queenstown, the port on the
southwest coast Of Ireland. where all
thes Atlantic ocean lanes TO Britain
come together. Off the shores near
Queenstown the thousands of ships
which feed Britain pass by day and
night
Frost is in Washington for a rest
For over two years he has been in
attendance at the funerals Of mer-
chant ships struck down by the under
water terror. II has been his task to
collect the evidence as to sixIy-five
sinkings IN which Americans were I'M
periIed or slaughtered He has seen
the cemeteries on the Irish hillside
f..sgI1 = n4
heard the shrieas OF mothers for their
murdered babies. seen men stark mad
with the C0rtures of hunger and thirst,
brought in from days and nights in
foodless ufeboats.
German Guilt Is Double.
It IS with difficulty he can be in
duced 10 talk. but when he does the
faII-throated Indignation Of this clean
cut young American IS almost terrible
n It's intensity
The German guilt IS double. said
Frost TODAY In the first place, no
civilized government would have re-
sorted TO such methods. even when it
was possible to sink ships occasional
without numbering uon-com batanIS
Now that the 1ruing of merchant
shiDs and the effectiveness OF the pa
trolls makes it impossible for the sub
marines TO risk giving warning they
would drop it If they were white
The sporting word he uses explains
much of the sort OF man Frost Is
Born back in OberIfn. Ohio his life
has been that Of the sturdy young
American who makes his way in the
world by hard work and fighting fair.
II is not strange that he has no use
for the sophfstries of "frightfulness
and calls murder by it's real name.
Now that the submarines have been
driven 10 attack ships subm erged-
using the torpedo almost excIusIv ely
the murder roll is bound TO grow,
Frost explained. Most ships when
struck by a torpedo, go down in two
or three minutes, which gives no op-
portunity of escape to those below
Recent happenings which came IN
der his observance since the beginning
of the ruthless warfare show this CON