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Show GERMANS BITTER AGAINST II. S: Berlin, Feb 1, via London, 10 a in. The Tagelische Rundschau, commenting com-menting on Secretary Lansing's note to the powers regarding submarine warfare and tho arming of merchantmen, merchant-men, Indulges in a sarcastic attack on i-rcHiuuni. wuson ana iir. Lansing and expresses its disbelief that the note is Intended to be taken seriously and much less that It will accomplish any good. It expresses a faint hope, however, how-ever, that the publication in America of the communications to London nnd Berlin will, op their being compared, fall to weaken the growing sentiment of congress against "the English tendencies tend-encies of Mr Wilson and Mr. Lansing Lans-ing " The Rundschau says it does not believe that Americans will ever be warned not to travel on armed steamers steam-ers and it declares It Is of the opinion that British and French vessels, even though armed, will always be allowod to enter American ports. It charges Mr. Lansing with carofully avoiding all the logical consequences of the knowledge at his disposal and of "taking "tak-ing back In the last paragraph what he enunciated in the first." It adds finally that Great Britain or tho entente en-tente must be legally responsible for whatever losses are incurred by the destruction of merchant vessels. Nothing But Words. The Kreus Zeltung publishes a lengthy leng-thy editorial on the note, in which it slates that it does not believe in America's neutrality. "Words, nothing noth-ing but words, ring across the' ocean to us" says the newspaper. It characterizes char-acterizes the note as a subterfuge which seeks to conceal how greatly "Anglophile America fears the strenuous stren-uous application of our weapon." The Boersen Zeltung expresses the conviction that if America really carried car-ried out Its proposals, the advantage that will thereby accrue to Germany will outweigh the disadvantages; it loubts, however, that America will ?arry out its own proposals. |