The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-08
ANDREW BONAR LAW AND ASQU|TH SPEAK BEFORE COMMONS
Ex-Premier and Chancellor of Exchequer in Perfect Accord in Views Ex-
 pressed in Parliament

London, February 7.-In the House of Lords today the Marquis of Crewe, re- viewing the situation much as Andrew Bonar Law, the chancellor of the ex- chequer, had done in the House of Con- mons, said that Germany had thrown aside the mask of humanity by her latest utterance, and had promised a warfare of unequaled savagery which was stag gering not In the sense of it's authors hopes, but to those who contemplated Germany's moral position.
 The speaker said he knew of no parallel in modern history for Germany's act. Even Napoleon and Frederick II, he said, interruptions as they were, would have shrunk from such threat The action of the United States government, in the face of the German menace, he added, would be founded on a high moral basis. He hoped, however, that nobody would suppose that the action of America would make it less incumbent upon the allies to do the utmost possible to win the war.
 In seconding the address in reply to the speech from the throne in the House of Commons, Admiral Sir Hedworth Meux, unionist, said:
 We have every reason to hope the same success which attended the destruc- ton of Zeppelins is in a fair way of being realized to counter the submarine trouble"
 ASQUITH SPEAKS
 Former Premier Asquith described Ger many's new naval policy as one of ''un- disguised savagery" He said it was not worth while discussing the motives which actuated the German government The novel feature of it was that 1t was a direct and defiant challenge to the con- science and to the interests of the entire neutral world
 This declaration of war on neutrati- ty,' continued Mir. Asquith, 'fs a chal- lenge which has been taken up with dig nifty and without delay by the greatest of neutral states. It is not for us to forecast the bearing of this memorable event upon the future of the war. Still less is it fitting for us to tender advice or suggestions to a government which is we'll able to take care of itself. We shall hail with exclamation. with a strain of family pride, the stern and resolute de- termination of the other great English speaking power to frustrate the enormity of those who have abundantly earned for themselves the title of enemies of the human race"
 BONAR LAW AGREES
 Andrew Bonar Law. the chancellor of the exchequer, in addressing the Com mons, expressed himself satisfied with what he alluded to as the perfect man ner in which former Premier Asquith had voiced the feeling of the country on the role of the neutrals in the face of the submarine menace
 Noting that more and more merchant shipping was coming under the direct requisition of the government and that the shipping controller was putting down large number of new ships MT. Bonar Law said he did not minimize the sub marine danger, but that some of the best brains in the country at large and among naval men was concentrated upon the problem. Altogether, he declared. he was not without hope whatever the rav- ages of submarines might be, that some thing might be done to replace the lost tonnage by new ships.