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Show BRITISH ARMING MERCHANT CRAFT Germany Forced to Take Up Sharper Submarine Campaign Cam-paign by English Act. FACE ENTANGLEMENTS Berlin Newspapers See Undoubted Un-doubted Endangerment of German-American Relations. Berlin, Tuecday, OcL IS. Via London, Lon-don, Oct. 19, 12; 10 p. m. (Delayed). The Krlegs Zeitung, the evening edition edi-tion of the Lokal Anzelger, publishes a report that the British have ordered the arming of all merchantmen and says that, as a result, Germany may be forced to take up a sharper submarine sub-marine compalgn with consequent endangerment of German-American relations. It continues: "If it Is true that England actually intonds to arm all its merchantmen with heavy and therefore, far-carrying guns and thus label them plainly as warships intended for attack, it cannot be avoided that, whether we wish to or not, we must give a sharper sharp-er tendency 10 our submarine campaign." cam-paign." Forecast Rupture With U. S. Petrograd, Oct. 18, 12:30 p. m via London, Oct. 19, 1:41 a. m. The Novoe Yremya, reviewing the German American situation and voicing the general view here, concludes: "A clear renewal of submarine warfare war-fare cannot be regarded by the United States otherwise than as sufficient causo for a rupture of diplomatic relations re-lations with Germany." The Bourse Gazette says: "A renewal of submarine warfare cannot now form the object of diplomatic diplo-matic action by the United States of the same nature as boforo because the notes exchanged with Germany after the sinking of the Sussex created a position which does not permit the German government to maKe any fresh attempt at justification. Germany Ger-many gave the United States absolute abso-lute assurances that cases like that of the Sussex would not bo repeated. In other words that has happened regard re-gard which the United States government govern-ment categorically declared that it would not be left unpunished." |
