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Show r n ra H . WOULD SINIC GERMAN SHIPS B Secretary Daniels pauses in his sight- H seeing tour of Europe to remark that B' sinking the surrendered German navy B would constitute "the greatest moral les- B son of the war." To make the moral B spectacle the more edifying, he would B have the Hunnish ships of war "sunk B with bands playing and flags ..flying to B .keep company with the merchantmen the B German navy destroyed;" B Mr. Daniels, if we mistake not, is the B first American statesman to permit his B name to be connected with this absurd B suggestion. It has been nut forward as B ( an American proposal, but Americans m generally have ridiculed it as both waste MV ful and silly.The last information on the V subject was that France and Italy were B to be given their share for rational use B and that the British and American quotas BB were to be scuttled. K Such -a performance could be made a -' ""great moral lesson" only if jKaiser Wil- B liam. Admiral von Tirpitz and the other H Authors of schreklichkeit were sent down B withrihe ships. To sink the weapons and |