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Show WARNSGERMANY Fatal Mistake for Germans to Treat America's Entrance Into War Lightly. OTHERS ROAST U. S. Contend Germany Has Perfect Right to Make Her Own International Law. AMSTERDAM via London, April 13 7:18 a. m Captain Persius, writing In the Berlin Tageblatt, criticises those who treat America's entry into the war lightly. "It would be a fatal mistake," he Bald, "to regard America's economic strength as the only important factor for an enemy. The military strength of the United States is not to be met with a shrug of the shoulders, otherwise other-wise we shall make the same mistake as we did about the military strength of Britain." Otto Hoetsch, a prominent political writer, reviewing the German-American clash In the Kreuz Zeitung, contends con-tends that Germany has a perfect right to make" her own International law as far ns submarines are concerned and also in regard to neutrals, for whose future Interests, he says, Germany Is fighting. Her Hoetsch charges that America was never neutral from the beginning of the war, which, he says, would have been over long ago if America nad not abetted the entente. He continues: "Germany, in always trying to avoid a German-American conflict, played Into the hands of our opponents. The German embassy in Washington . should be blamed for this. It was the ! weakest spot in the whole diplomatic , service. Apart from its glaring mis- takes, tho embassy lacked an under- standing of American psychology, the best proof of this boing the fanuro of the whole German propaganda. It is i to tho kaiser's lasting merit that ho . made every effort to hold America's ; friendship. We cannot blame him be- cause America is against us, but we . do blame the German-Americans, who ' must realize that the fatherland Is deeply disappointed in them." |