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Show BERLIN NEWSPAPERS MAKE HOSTILE COMMENT Tho Hague, May 18. Berlin newspapers news-papers as a rula retrain from comment com-ment upon tbo American noltt to Germany. Tho Tages Zoltung, bow-over, bow-over, dlBtusBes tho noto in a halt column article. It says- "Tho United Stntcs mnkes n brus-quo brus-quo demand that Germany abandon submnrlno Wnr against Great Britain. Th6 United Stntcs disregards' with complete disdain tho German wnr zone declaration communicated to Washington on February 4 and lator In tho courso ot tho oxchango of notes, disapproves ns surprising Irregularity Irreg-ularity tho Gormnn embassy's warning warn-ing In tbo pross nnd permits 'Itself to imputo to tho Gormnn government govern-ment as nn oxcuso the probability that German submnrlno commanders nctcd contrary to orders. "Whoever reads this noto without projudlco can scarcely escapo the Im pression that tho British ambassador ambassa-dor nt Washington was not for away when It wob framed. Ono could equally equal-ly ns well Imagine Its contents to bo n speoch by l'romler Asqulth In tho houso of commons." Von Rventlows Comment Count von Boventlow, tho naval critic, declares that tbo Gormnn wnr zono declaration followed tho British declaration, against which America failed to piotest. "Tho present noto, so far as concerns con-cerns torpedo steamers, makes English Eng-lish conclusions nnd untrue Btato-monts Btato-monts Its own," ho writes. "Germany know what sho was doing when sho mado hor decision nnd had considered consid-ered all posslblo cousequentcs. "Germany must nnd will go hor way, nnd lenvo It to tho United Stntcs to chooso other ocean paths than thoso through tho war zono, It Amorlcnn citizens havo n deslro to visit Europo in thoso times and ob-sorvo ob-sorvo how American war materials nro prolonging tho bloody war." Tho Vosslcho Zeltung moroly ro-murks ro-murks Incidentally that tho authorized authoriz-ed translation ot the American noto shows "tbo snmo sharp form" ob tbo version received from tbo Havns agency. |