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Show SILL ARMED SHIPS HELD ill OF W 'GERMANY TO ATTACK WITHOUT WARNING PASSENGER VESSELS CARRYING GUNS. The Promise Given to America That These Vessels Before Being Torpedoed Tor-pedoed Must Be Stopped and Examined Ex-amined Falls to the Ground. , London. The Exchange Telegraph company's Amsterdam correspondent quotes the folowing from the Berlin Taeglieche Rundschau: The German government has now formally taken the position that England's Eng-land's armed commercial and passenger passen-ger steamers are men of war, being armed auxiliary criusers. The promise prom-ise given to America which always has hindered our submarine warfare that these vessels before being torpedoed tor-pedoed must be stopped and exam ined, falls to the ground. They are warships and must be treated as such, even when Americans are on board. We now have facilities for extending extend-ing the undersea boat war, which all sensible people have long recognized as unavoidable and indispensable. This is the best reply to Premier Uoyd-George's refusal of our peace offer. Ratifies Sale of Islands. Copenhagen. King Christian, i" the cabinet council, ratified on Friday the treaty providing for the sale o! the Danish West Indies to the Unitf Btaiaa |