Several vessels besides the 'Sussex' have been torpedoed without warning
during the week, including the Dominion liner English- man ' and the Atlantic transport vessel Minneapolis.' The latter, it will be remembered, took part in the landing at Suvla Bay. The survivors from the 'Minneapolis' were brought into Malta, and it is said that eighteen members of the crew are missing. A great disillusionment has been caused in the United States by the general recognition that the German conduct of the negotiations about submarine warfare was utterly insincere. It is felt now that the Germans were all along playing for time till the circumstances changed to their advantage. Such an advantageous change for them exists in the embarrassment caused to the United States by the Mexican expedition. President Wilson has asked Germany for an explanation of the sinking of the Sussex.' Meanwhile Count Bernstoril has characteristically suggested that if the commander of the submarine which torpedoed the 'Sussex' exceeded his instructions he will be punished.
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