Evening star., 1925-10-12
VII SONS SILENCE CAUSED PAGE
UNEASINESS IN LUSTTANIA CRISIS
Executive Lost Interest
Because of Such Wide
Divergence of Views.
Enjoys Fears Finally Al
layed by Short Note
From Chief.

meant they should, and they withdrew
a considerable body of troops from
France and rushed them to Antwerp.
Then the English and the French
made their big drive, l suppose the
next time an Antwerp story is told
The Germans won't believe il. and
then an English army may really go.
! could fill a dozen pages With Il
crop of such stories CLEANED almost
any good day for Gossip-mosl Of
them t"ue-buI what matter? The air
is full of them clean up to the moon.
But most Of them are glOomy-such.
for example. as the report that the
British have lost 100 900 in the Oar
danelleS, and that the late drive" in
France cost the British between so 900
and 20 900 men. When these facts are
made public in Parliament, nobody
knows what sort of a convulsion Will
follow
Perhaps then what is known as the
Northcliffe- Lloyd George conspiracy
may come to a head. Certainly the
government Is in deep water. There
are q dozen suppressed criticisms, any
one of which might land may) cause
hapS other changes almost as impor-
tant-the censorship, the Dardanelles
crime. the Balkan situation, conscrIp-
ton, etc. Except for the encourage
men1 given by the recent advance in
France. every recent military event
has deepened the gloom. True, Rus
s!a is coming back, but Italy Is doing
nothing. VIII she really help in the
Balkans? The Germans may reach
Constantinople They won't. but
many persons fear they will. IF the
English people knew of the slaughter
of their armies in France and in the
Dardanelles they would rend the gov
ernment and accept peace on almost
any terms. They wouldn't, of course,
but the government seems TO think
they would.
In these gloomy times. you will not
be Surprised-you have not been sur
prised-that the German come down
in the Arabic case provoked SO little
comment here. for the English have
destroyed 50 many submarines that
the Germans are. in that matter, at
the end Of their rope. and they are
using US to save their face.
ION September I. as a result OF
the torpedoing of the Arabic. Count
Bernstorff handed Mr.. Lansing a writ
ten pledge: II beg to inform you that
my instructions concerning our an
swer to your last Lusitania note con-
tain the following passage: Liners will
rot be sunk by submarines. without
warning. and without insuring the
safety of the lives of non-combatants.
provided that the liners do not try to
escape or offer resistance
Its a moral certainty that the sub.
marine which sunk the Arabic was
itself sunk on that very day, and
there We're no survivors. "Comdr.
Schneider Is as dead as Rip Van
Winkie's dog. But the English are
interested in the Lusitania case They
say. "She was sunk nearly six months
ago, and no satisfactory answer has
Yet been given about her. How long
can the Germans keep the President
waiting?" Remember the Lusitania'
was one of the most successful re-
cruiting circulars during the early
summer. and it has more than once
been the battle cry Of attacking Brit
ish forces in France. We shall not
get credit in English opinion for a de-
cisive diplomatic victory over Ger
many until the Lusitania case is sat
isfactorily closed.
see and feel in a hundred ways