The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-28
Germany Broke No Pledges Since Sussex Note Specifically
Provided That Suspension Of Submarine War De-
pended on Allies UNFOLDING National Law
SHOULD DENY MUNITIONS
The Reason the Allies Have Not Taken Lives Instead of
Merely Property Is That u S. Has Submitted to
Englands Dictation of the Seas He Says

by mutual understanding fight for life
against an enemy who from the begin
ming put his heel upon the recognized
laws of nations. The English starvation
blockade, our peace Offer its rebuke
by the entente, the war aims of our
enemies purporting our destruction
and the speeches of Lloyd George are
known also in America"
Speaking of relations with the Unit
ed States, the chancellor said:
Il would fully understand ii if the
United States as a protector of inter-
national law should have bartered fol
it's re-establishment in equal fashion
with all the belligerents and If, desir-
ing to restore peace to the world, 1t
had taken measures to enforce the end
OF bloodshed. But | cannot possibly
consider it II vital question for the
American nation to protect interna-
tional law in Il one sided fashion,
only against us. Our enemies and
American circles which are unfrendly
toward us thought that they could
point out an important difference be-
tween our course of action and that OF
the British. England. they have salts
fled themselves. destroys only material
values, which can be replaced. while
Germany destroys human lives, which
are impossible to replace.
Y. S. Submitted to Allies.
We'll. gentlemen, why did the British
not endanger American lives? Only be-
cause neutral countries and especially
America voluntarily submitted to the
British orders and because the British
therefore, could attain their object
without employing force. What woult
have happened If Americans valued
unhampered passenger and commo.
dities traffic with Bremen and Ham
burg as much as that with Liverpool
and London. If they had done so, ther
we should have been freed from the
painful impression that. according tc
America, a submission to British power
and control is compatible with the es-
sential character Of neutrality, but that
it is incompatible with this neutral
of defense.
THE breaking off of relations with
the United States ana the attempted
mobilization of all neutrals against us
do not serve for the protection of the
freedom of the seas proclaimed by the
United States. These actions will not
promote the peace desired by Pres-
dent Wilson. They must consequently
have encouraged the attempt to starve
Germany and to multiply bloodshed.
I'VE regret the rupture with ma
ton which by her history seemed to
be predestined surely to work with us
not against us, but since our honest
will for peace has encountered only
jeering on the part OF our enemies
there is no more going backword
there is only going a,,-ad,' possible fol
U.S. M....
British Starved Beers.
The chancellor pointed out that this
British starvation blockade was not
without precedent in English history
Premier Lloyd George himself. said the
chancellor, had protested in parliament
against the cruelty by which the
British victmzed thousands of inno-
cent women and children of the Beers
Mr.. Lloyd George stated that the death
rate among children below II years
was in those concentration camps. 4l.t
per cent; Joseph Chamberlain, then
British colonial secretary, admitted
that the death rate among children In
the Orange Free State was temper.
arily SIS per cent, the chancellor re.
counted.
These conditions" he continued
'were the result of systematic policy
of determination under which women
and children were insufficiently sup.
piled with food. not, perhaps. because
there was a lack of food, but purpose
ly. The British at that time killed from
5000 to 1900 women and children
out Of 100000. thus making 12 per CEN
of them victims of their barbarou!
warfare. BIT now Britain desire!
| to make victims o, women, children
aged and i'll of n nation numbering TO-,
| 100000 people in order to force then
| into submission"