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of

INTERNATIONAL LAW

AND THE SUBMARINE

ERMANY has threat-

Gened indiscriminate,

large-scale warfare against British shipping which, she declares, will henceforth be regarded as men-o'-war.

She darkly hints, also,

at St. Paul's Cathedral in Lon-be amiss. don, Their Majesties

were

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(COPYRIGHT}

As to the application of the rules of sea warfare to submarine engaged in the attacking and cupluring of prize, the theses can hardly be questioned. It is a sea warcraft; the fact that it can travel undersea does not make it the loss. At any rate,. It has got to como up the surface, In order to discharge its torpedo or to fire THE KING and Queen were that neutrals will be in 23 of the Convention Respecting used, as well as the nature of their at ita victim. At auch moment there is really little to distinguish among the millions

volved in the attempt to the Laws and Customs of War equipment.

war, when the it from an ordinary torpedo boat British blockade successfully or a cruiser. Britons who, throughout the drive shipping from the sea. on Land, which says in the first. IS THE late

The difference Hes rather in In view of these threats, a mentioned article that: "The Fritz Kreisler Empire, offered special prayers brief survey of the Inter- right of belligerent to adopt cut off all German overseas com-

munications, Germany attempted, another direction, one which puts means of injuring the enemy is national Law

with some measures of success, to the submarine in a more unfavour- governing not unlimited.""

overcome it by the construction able light in comparison with sur- We are told in the cables that submarine warfare will not And, in item (b) of the next of two submarine vessels. One face warcraft.

It possesses very nearly all the article, it states: "To kill or of these, the well-known U-boat When Germany's netion in the wound treacherously individuals "Deutschland," made two trips abilities of the latter to Injure, Great War is remembered, the belonging to hostile nation or across the Atlantie to New York in but is itself Incapable of moderat- question to what extent a belli ammay, is especially prohibited." 1916. The Allied Powers pro- ing the severity of war like the gerent may exercise the right to That the submarine is capable tested to the United States against latter, as required by the rules of destroy enemy merchant vessels of inflicting injuries to the onomy violation of neutrality, and demand sea warfare. That this is so may claimed that no matter which are equally applicable to and endanger neutral life and beyond the limit permitted by ed that the boat should be detained. be seen in the rules cited below, property on the High Sens be- civilised warfare; and that its They comes very real.

sudden emergence from the depth whether the "Deutschland" was both.

* of the sea to deliver ita death: blow armed or not, being a submarine, of it had to be classed as a warcraft. haa all the appearance

Investigation by the Govern- GENERALLY speaking, inter- national Law recognises the the English-speaking world, than IN the late war Germany took treachery is undeniable,

This is why, when submarines ment of the United States, disclosed,

employed in violation of however, that the "Deutschland" right of a belligerent to destroy use would be pronounced commercial purposes, and refused to to certain conditions and limita- For, she argued, these ships illegitimate.

comply with the request of the tons.

Of such right it is unnecessary Allied Powers. were either armed or

However, this is far from being

It is possible that Germany may to elaborate here, what is interest- destined for the "destruction of marines earrying troops and ammunition the same as saying that all sub- resort to the same devies again, Ing-la-the-limitation upon the

possess

vicious these

now that high seas are cleared of exercise of this right.

In almost all of the rules larued by brave German soldiers who were features; no more true than say- German merchant vessels. But

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among the devout gathering who joined in the sweet solemnity and sacred grandeur of "Abide With Me", the hymn that has brought more consola. tion to humanity, or at least to

any other,

Wherever it is sung, its strains inspire the souls of those who hear it. In astonishing ways, and under strange circum stances, the hymn has swayed; the hearts and minds of people in all lands and in all grades of

life.

In numerous languages this hallowed poem, a priceless trea- sure in Christian hymnology, will long continue its gracious ministry.

At a time when durkness deepens over the world, men turn more than ever to the knowledge that the Founder of Christianity "came to comfort all that mourn, and comfort them here and now."

He was a Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief," yet His Divinity enabled Him to say, "Come unto Me, all ye that

I will give you rest.”

the view that she had a per-

лre

fect right to sink ail enemy these broad general principles, was constructed and equipped for enemy 'merchant vessels, subject -

merchantmen.

were

their

fulfilling with self-querifice and ing that airplanes, their whether or not such type of sub the naval Powera for the regula devotion their duty to The counterparts in the air, are deadly. marine will be given the status of tions of the conduct of son war- fatherland." As for the neutrals, It is largely a matter of tho a merchant vessel by the neutrals fare of their naval commanders,

PLEASE Turn To Page 9. they deserved such hardship purpose for which they are to be remains to be seen. and risk for having put more faith on the British promises than heed to German warnings.

To some extent. the Germani assertion and practices in the Great War, though questionable, were not without reason.

LET'S REMEMBER THAT WE'RE AT

It is commonly agreed that,į WAR WITH THE GERMAN PEOPLE

up to 1914, there were no inter- national conventions. expressly made, either for the interdiction national chaos which we are

HE appalling state of inter-} or restriction of the employment witnessing at the present mom- of submarines.

It is true that at the First ent of this year of Grace, One

Says

Hague Conference, in 1899, both thousand Nine Hundred and JOHN BLUNT

as yet, but

The world can get on very well without Communism and Nazilsm. Only a few months ago, a German assured me that after all there was much in common with the German jand

Russlan policies and forms of Government, Let it be so. Let the German coldfery emulate the horrors restriction and interdiction of Thirty-nine, is

of. Russia and slaughter every man the use of this weapon had been vaguely appreciated. prosposed. But as the smaller

Thanks to Hitler, super-madman with the crazy dictates of their or women who by dint of intelligence, has accumulated independent means,. the of super-madren, the world is threa- foreign-born adventurer Hitler. states saw in the submarine antesed with an upheavat, the like nf

They lived and flourished under and thus place Germany and foreign flugs, enjoying a freedom un- Germans on the same servilo and as tho masses in efficient and cheap means of de- which has no precedent. fence, they were unwilling to. Hitler; the man who rose to fome Inknown in their own country, and had meniul footing | labour and aro heavy laden, anu lend support to such a proposal, his own country because of his uvow. not the common courage to protest Russin.

Let them have their purges, until despite the willingness of the ed task of saving the country from ugainst the polley of blood, iron and

Communism, has now thrice perjured lust, preached by their unscrupulous the race becomes equal in the social scale. An equality based on the strong naval powers to do so,

himself by throwing his country, and Dictator in Berlin, By the time of the Second as far as he is concerned, the whole

There was a time when some of lowest and not the highest reward Hague Conference, the sub- of Europe, to the mercy of Com-them. Whispered their objections to for industry and Individual enter

the Hitlerlun polley, but as time prise.

became marine has developed into a munist Russia.

cowed LIFED modern, effective war machine,

The movement at present is to As far as Germany and Germons passed, they as fully demonstrated in the are concerned, I have no sympathy craven creatures, uttering their criss gather unto the fold as many nations. to offer. Whatever may be the future of Hell at every possible opportunity, as possible who will sell their birth Russo-Japanese War, and both of the allegedly cultured Germanke because of their fear of being ostra right for this mess of Commiunistic the strong and weak states were Race, the responsibility and conse-cised and penalised dare they object pottage. The weaker and smaller way to the Rúzso-German threat.: I of the message of Christ a crea-instrument.

German, no matter whether he reproval.

If Germany has found her soulmate refuse to believe that Japan and sides in his own benighted country, tive purpose which has brought That being the case, it is not or has waxed fat under the flings of in Russia, who are we to complain? Italy will sell their independence to There is one aspect, however, which this soulless revolutionary movement. them through sorrow and pain, surprising that no mention is to others. through darkness and danger, be found concerning submarine. For Germany's wickedness, there cannot and must not be lost sight of. through all the vicissitudes of This seems the more remark- can be no excuse. She has created very German outside his own cous-ERMANY, thanks again to Hitler, life to new powers of spiritual able, since out of the thirteen a threat to others which is now try should be given the opportunity has no option. Her has sold threatening to engulf her, and make to return within the fold of his own her lock, stock and barrel to his conventions concluded by this her supposedly proud race a vassal native land, and there enjoy the Russian masters. It is all very well communistic equality which Germany for him to agree under pressure to regeneration,

Conference, eight dealt with of Communistle Russia.

has now sponsored,

share the spoils.

A naval warfare. So there the May every German wallow in the

"I cannot imagine the Chinese sacel matter stood in 1914.

depths of despair which must have

T HAVE revolted when I have seen icing their culture and civilization to But even thon, there were been the lot of the Polish nation.

the Nazi uniform warn in this the doctrine of the communists, uni some rules in the Hague conven- tions, besides customary inter- LOSE patience with those who Colony by the Berlin-appointed task- here that I feel very deeply that ourable peace with Chino, ho better national law, which might be assert that we are nt wer with hospitality and protection.

prate about humanitarianism, and master of Germons, enjoying British the sooner Japan arrives at an hon MODESTO, Cal applied to submarine warfare, Nazliam, and not with the Germans,

say, and I soy solemnly and it will be for her and China and the Frogs give everyIndication of either on principle or by That standpoint is almost too utdeliberately, that Germans have world in general, eventually becoming "blg business"

themselves to blame if they find that Let Germany consort with Russia terly, absurd even to discuIES analogy. in the west, One company has filed

Overseas Germans during the Inst the rest of the world shuns them to her heart's content, and between articles of Incorporation for the To take a few instances, thosee could have saved the world They have supported, their own anthem they may be able to control opening of twenty frog, ranches in that could be applied in general from its present dilemme, by making tional madness, and let them stew, in teir respective masses according to

PLEASE Tum To Page 9:4 this county alone,

may be found In Articles 22 and it perfectly clear that they disagreed the Jufer thereof.

There is the endorsement of this invitation in the experience of all those who have sought the spiritual specific to enable them to meet whatever of agony there is in life,

Such have found in acceptanec i eqúnlly eager to make use of this quences rest with every individual or refrain from recording their ap-¡nations such as Esthonla, will give

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