Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1917-02-28
Chancellor Won Bethmann-
HoIIweg Says England Would
Destroy NeutraIS if Placed
in Germany'S Condition.
SUBMARINES CERTAIN
TO BRING VICTORY
No Time Now for Peace TAX
What Teutons Must Do Is
to Put Fear Into Hearts of
All Enemies.

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! Berlin Feb, n (hy Wireless to Say
| Villel Extreme bitterness toward the
United States for its breaking off dip.
lomatic relations with Germany was
! voiced today by Chancellor Won Beth,
-Hoiiweg in his address to the
reicnstag, postponed from last week
zone step further than that taken
by European neutrals has been made
-~~as is knOWn-bN the United States -
the chancellor said. President Wilson
after receiving our note of January
81, brusquely broke off relations with
us. No authentic communication
about the reasons which We're given for
his steps reached me. The former
United States ambassador here in Ber-
lin communicated only in spoken
words 20 the state secretary of the
foreign office of breaking off rela-
tions and asked for his passports. This
form of breaking off relations between
great nations living in peace is prob
ably without precedent in history
Denies Blockade.
AS is generally known" the chan
Cellor continued, I'VE did not declare
a blockade, but merely established
definite barred zones within which
every ship has to count on immediate
attack. Success we shall be able to
obtain partly by sinkings, partly by
discouragng neutral shipping, which
already has happened in the widest
sense.
Thanks to the incompatible brav-
cry of our submarines, we are fully
willing to await with full confidence
further developments which will be on
the increase.
"A'='lera winter IL behind u.s." ha
continued, especially for tho poorer
people. The difficulties of railroad
traffic increased and the difficulties
in supplying food and fuel. Women
and children became heroes At no
time has the spirit of love of country
stood the test as firmly in the midst
of suffering and want"
Scores United States.
II would fully understand it if the
United States, as a protector of inter
national law, should have bartered for
its establishment in equal fashion
with all the belligerents and if desir-
ing to restore peace to the world, had
taken measures to enforce the end Of
the bloodshed, But / cannot possibly
consider it a vital question for the
American nation to protect interna-
tionai law in a one-sided fashion, only
against us, our enemies and Ameri-
can circles which are uufricndly to-
ward us, thought that they could
point out an important difference be-
tween our course of action and that
of the British. England, they have
satisfied themselves, destroys only
material values, which can be re-
placed, while Germany destroys hu-
man lives which are impossible to re
place,
Wasn't Necessary for England
"Well. gentlemen, why did the Brit
ish not endanger American lives? Only !
because neutral countries, and espe
cially America, voluntarily submitted
to the British orders, and because the |
British therefore could attain their
object without employing force. What
would have happened if Americans |
had valued unhampcred passenger /
and commodities traffic with Bremen
and Hamburg as much as that with |
Liverpool and London? If they had !
done so, then we should have been
freed from the painful impression
hat. according to America, a submis-
sion to British power and control is |
with the essential char
lcter of neutrality but that it is in
with this neutral policy to
'ecognze German measures of de-
ense."
Encourages Gcrmany's Enemies.
"Gcntlemen, let us consider the
whole question. The breaking off of
with the United States and
he attempted mobilization of all ,neu-
rails against us do not serve for the
protection of the freedom of the seas
Proclaimed by the United States, These
ctions will not promote the peace de-
ired by President Wilson. They must
onsequently have encouraged the at
empt to starVe Germany and to null
iply the bloodshed.
We regret the rupture with a ma
ion which by her history seemed to
e predestined surely to work with us,
ot against us, but since our honest
'ill for peace has encountered only
eerng on the part of our enemies
here is no more going backward. :
here Is only going ahead possible
or US"
The chancellor then insisted that
,ngland obviously endeavored to de-
lare that the use of the submarine
yeapon was the greatest crime of
istory since, he said, England con-
dered herself the ordained ruler of
le oceans and the benefactor of hui
lanity. He recalled the opinion ex- '
ressed on July IA, 1914, by Sir Percy 8
colt. to whom he referred as one Of '
le greatest English authorities or /
avail history Sir Percy, he said, pre- Il
icted "A submarine war exactly as it a
ad come about during this war and +
eclared that no objection to it would Il
E possible on the grounds of law or
lorality. Sir Percy, the chancellor
1ded, obviously could not have con
dered that the present submarine
arfare would become the only Ger /
an defensive measure against the en- q
nte allies and the British starvation |
ockade. t
The chancellor pointed out that this /,
ritish starvation blockade was not {