Ogden Daily Standard | 1915-11-09 | Page 7 | Berlin Press Ignores Note

oo BERLIN PRESS IGNORES NOTE Only Morgenpost Comments on Firm Language of United States Latest Protest to Great Britain. Berlin, Nov. 9, via London, 12:40 p. m. Berlin newspapers as a rule mako no comment on the American note to Great Britain relative to Interference In-terference with neutral shipping. Summaries of the note as received in Berlin are published even without Indications In tho headlines of the significance sig-nificance attached to tho communication. communi-cation. The Morgenpost, "however, makes tho following statement: "It Is to be hoped tho lesson In international in-ternational law which tho Washington government gives the British government govern-ment will make the desired Impression Impres-sion in London. Tho bare fact that tho American government uses such decided and firm language shows that the discontent of wldo and Influential American circles with Great Britain must be assumed to bo very earnest earn-est in character. "It Is to bo hoped America will not content herself with a bargo protest, but will proceed to onergotlc measures, meas-ures, If the caso demands and Great Britain's gross arbitrariness docs not cease." The newspapers generally give great prominenco to the affidavits filed at Washington by Ambassador Bernstorff concerning tho British patrol pa-trol boat Baralong which is said to havo shot down fifteen mombers of tho crew of a German submarino after af-ter they had surrendered or while swimming in tho sea. oo