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Show LUSITANIA SETTLEMENT. uuot Von fVriistorft"s nopusila for the f.i:tt lament of the Lusilaniu ttiso ap- . peril- to bo fairly adcqualn. Vh'i Ocr-iimity Ocr-iimity sfilt aui.'U a -liavou al, Mie con-m-I.ts that tlif boM. form of a disavowal i. tin: awanr- ...at the acta complained of will out he repeated. Prarlirally -peaking, Mint is true. If Germany ad-inith ad-inith runs-'ioiis and deliberate wrong-dniiiu wrong-dniiiu in llip Uir-.taiiia raso, she admits an arl ot iuhumanity which would be ,. .Ie.-'i'ibed as wholesale, murder if committed com-mitted by an individual. It is not easy lor a great and proud nation to make suih an admission and It must be ro-memberod ro-memberod that the German admiralty, when it orderoil the sinking of the Lusi- j tauia, maintained that the V.o-:t was i tinned and that in any event its destvu'-'- 1 i on could be defended as a nt reprisal na inst Great Britain. Genua uy has since abaudoucd these contentious, but iu cnn.sidering a crime regard must be had for the motives. Our ottii laws instruct in-struct us that a crime must have two elements the act and the inlcnt. The intent sometimes eliminates the element of crime altogether and sometimes it mitigates the offense. The German go 'eminent now promises prom-ises to make reparation by paying in-deiuiiily in-deiuiiily for .- Amerit-an lives ".ost in the sinkinc; of the Lusitania. Jt also assures our government that the instructions instruc-tions which were given submarine eom-manilorfi eom-manilorfi operating in the Xorth sea will be given submarine commanders operating operat-ing in the Mediterranean. Four months ago Germany gave a similar pledge regarding re-garding the so-called war amies in the -North sa aud Knglish channel, and during dur-ing that period has faithfully adhered to the pledge, fur not a single passenger vessel, so far as we are aware, has been torpedoed in the urea mentioned in the last four months. It probably is safe to assume that A u stria will conform her submarine practice to that uf Germany. As a matter mat-ter of fact, Austria, had just given a pledge almost identical with that of the German government when the Persia was torpedoed without warning. If Aus-tiia Aus-tiia abides by the pledge, the ease of the Persia probably will be adjusted by the payment of indemnities. Tt is likely that Germany and Austria understand t hut our patience has been strained to the breaking point and that we will not endure much longer the piratical practices prac-tices of submarine commanders in the Mediterra ivan. |