17 AUGUST 1918, Page 2

It was announced in last Saturday's papers that Captain Schweiger,

the German submarine commander who torpedoed and sank the

Lusitarxia,' perished miserably by running into a British mine- field in September, 1917. He was then in command of another submarine, the 'P88.' The name of the man who actually com- mitted the foul crime deserves to be remembered. But the real criminals were the German Emperor and his advisers, who planned the deed with elaborate care. Captain Schweiger was only their obedient tool. Some day, perhaps, the rulers of Germany will understand that the torpedo which sank the Lusitania ' also de- stroyed their hopes of victory, for no other single event did so much to turn America from a neutral into a belligerent.