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Show oo LIKE THE NEIGHBORHOOD BULLY. The St. Petersburg Times says: "Germany explains that her U-boat campaign is due to the fact that Great Britain is tryine to starve the German Ger-man nation. The British blockade which is meant to starve the German people into submission is maintained by the British war fleeL Why. then, are the German submarines not sent against those blockading warships instead in-stead of against non-combatant merchantmen mer-chantmen that are connected with the controversy only in a distant and indirect in-direct way? There is the indefensible indefens-ible weakness of the German position. It is like the familiar plan of the neighborhood bully who. when put to route by a lad of equal or superior strength, proceeds to lie in wait and thrash the lad's little brother. For the German nation in Its privation there is sympathy wherever there are men and women with hearts in their bosoms. Hut for the German policy which shuns fair and honest combat between warships and brings the enemy en-emy to terms by maklnc war on non-combatants non-combatants there can be nothing but contempt." |