28 AUGUST 1915, Page 3

It is suggested that the American Government would be satisfied

if the commanders of German submarines always warned passenger vessels and placed the passengers in boats before sinking the vessels. We do not believe for a moment that America would consent to this caricature of satisfying international law and humane custom. Imagine placing women and children in small boats sixty miles from land in a high winter sea and piercing cold and saying that their safety was proVided for! No; we are sure that if Germany means to prevent America from taking action of some kind she will have to change her policy drastically, and not by a mere use of tricky words or by illusory modifications of her practice.