Show WILSON AND ASQUITH I INSTRUCTION in the elementary 1 principles of reading and understanding understanding understanding under under- standing seems to be badly needed by bythe bythe the he Berlin newspaper that can well veli imagine the contents of oC President Wilsons Wilson's note to the German government government govern govern- ment to be a speech b by Premier Asquith In the House of Commons Either it lacks the ability to compre- compre bend or has failed Caned closely to observe observe ob ob- ob- ob serve the English premier during the past few tew weeks There could scarcely be two pronouncements pronouncements pronouncements pro pro- more dissimilar than the Presidents President's recent note and the usual burden of or Premier Asquith's ad ad- dresses Mr Wilson speaks in his note noto of ot having learned to recognize the German views and the German influence in the field of International obligation as always ys engaged upon the side of or Justice and humanity Mr AsquIth would go off like a Fourth of oc July skyrocket if it anybody even delicately hinted ho he held any s such ch opinion or would express It Mr Wilson says ys he understood the Instructions of the tho Imperial German government government to its naval commanders to be upon tho the same tame plane of humane action prescribed b by the naval codes of other nations Mr lr Asquith la is quite confident and repeatedly declares declares de de- de- de clares dares that the pi piratical acts of tho the German submarines are in conformity to an established policy of ot the German German German Ger Ger- man government s The Berlin editor who can Imagine tho views of or the one ono onoto oneto oneto to be those of the other Is Inciting German public sentiment for a purPOSe purPOSe purpose pur pur- pose that each day grows increasingly clear President ViI Wilson on addressed the government government gov gov- of or Germany as a friend re reluctant reluctant reluctant re- re to lo come to the conclusion to which he was none the less being forced by the logic of events He opened the way for tor German Germany to re return return return re- re turn to sanity and humanity without any public confession of He exhausted every resource of ot the great skill In forceful language of or which he heIs heis heis Is admitted admittedly po possessed to render German Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- man many's acquiescence easy and wIthout without without with wIth- out loss of ot dignity If It the President erred it was in an excess pf pr circumlocution circumlocution circum circum- locution and in beclouding his statements statements statements state state- ments with confusing flowers of ot rhetoric |