OCR Text |
Show GERMANS ACCUSE THE BRITISH OF TAKING THE LEAD BERLIN, Feb. 1J, by wireless to Say-vi.Ie. Say-vi.Ie. "Torpedoed wiLiiout warning." Under Un-der this headline the Nord Deutsche All-gumeine All-gumeine Zeitung is quoted by the Overseas Over-seas News agency as saying: "When the English government in the fourth month of t lie war that is, November Novem-ber 3, 101-i declare-.! the whole North sea a military area and thus put into practice prac-tice an absolutely new principle with respect re-spect to sea war zones, it then expressly warned all neutral ships ' me rc'uau linen oi' all kinds, mrvlianimeii from ail districts, dis-tricts, fishing vessels and other ships' , ji gainst entering the prescribed zone, as ! t!:cv would be exposed to great danger from English mines and English men of ar. "The German declaration with respect to tne barred zone on February 1, Hi 1 7, which followed the English declaration, announced exactly the same thing and pointed out that neutral ships entering t ,is zone would do so at their own risk, oxactlv as already had been set forth January 15, 1915, in a letter by an English En-glish minister to the Dutch minister 'Vessels may do so at their own risk.' " The newspaper declares: "The German sea forces have thus, nc ver torpedoed without warning, since ihe sinking of all ships without previous particular warning occurred in a war district dis-trict which had been declared as dangerous," dan-gerous," and adds: "The same cannot I be said of England, since British sub- i marines have repeatedly attacked and 1 sunk steamers by torpedoes outside the sea war district and without warning." The paper then gives the list of vessels ves-sels alleged to have been sunk by the i 1-ritish, as given' out bv the German sec-letarv sec-letarv of foreign affairs, Dr. Zimmermann, carlv last December, and some alleged to have been sunk under similar conditions I in the Mediterranean, i |