The New York Times has obtained from the British Admiralty
the statement that the 't127,' the German submarine which sank the 'Arabic,' was herself sunk on the same day—August lath. This is particularly interesting, for, as the New York Times points out, the German Government justified the sinking of the 'Arabic' to the American Government on the ground • that, according to the statement of the submarine commander, the 'Arabic' was about to ram the 1327.' Obviously no such statement can ever have been made. The German Govern- ment, thus brought to book, have issued a rigmarole which is a more than usually painful and futile prevarication. Besides, prevarication is always a bathos when it follows a lie. Why the Admiralty should not have published this highly pertinent information before we do not pretend to understand. Perhaps, as is said of the Highlanders in Kidnapped, they love a secret for its own sake and for the congenial exercise of keeping it.
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