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Show IGNOBLE HAGGLING. It 18 to be regretted that the Ger-1 Ger-1 1 man government has not adhered more generously to the spirit of its declare tion t hat passenger vessels would Dot ) torpedoed without warning and i without giving the passengers and !i crew opportunity to escape. Since j! that pledge was given the government B at Berlin has been anything but H straightforward. 6xjM5t justice tends 1 I toward peace; subterfuge and chili' chi-li' canery load on to war. The attempt to defend the submarine sub-marine commander who torpedoed the H Arabic by describing a supposed condition con-dition of affairs that could not , have I existed is a cage in point. i our gov-1 gov-1 eminent accepts the German proposal for arbitration the evidence, it seems ' certain, will make the German government's gov-ernment's contentions look ridiculous. The Arabic was struck near the , stern by a torpedo fired at right 1 angles to the course of the lioer. How, i then, can it be maintained that the Arabic showed signs of attacking the Bub marine, particularly as the submarine, sub-marine, .up to the moment of tiring, was hidden behind another vessel? Perhaps Berlin would have us believe 1 hat. the Arabic was trying to ' back I into the submarine. How much better It would have f i been for the German government to display that magnanimity which so be- comes a great nation. How much bet-; bet-; ter it would have been had Berlin admitted ad-mitted that the commander exceeded , his instructions, disavowed the act j and promised full reparation This would have been proof to the world : that Germany was nobly adhering to i its pledges. Instead wo fiud the statesmen states-men of Wilhelmst rassc ignobly haggling for an immaterial advantage when tbey 'might obtain a genuine advantage by an act of justice and magnanimity. |