The Times of last Saturday published a summary of an
" Appeal to America " in the Dutch Telegraaf. The article points out that one Dutch merchant vessel after another is sunk by German sub- marines, and that the same thing is true of Norwegian vessels. The role of the American Navy seems to he to supply the humanity wanting in German acts. Germany had undertaken (in the Sussex' Note) that no more passenger vessels should be sunk. But the Stephan,' sunk off the American coast, was a passenger vessel. Whenever Germany breaks her promises the incident is said to be " a mistake." But as the Telegraaf says, a child can understand that these mistakes are not mistakes. The paper therefore bogs the United States to act in the spirit of her past. " Sincerity demands that we say to America, Submarine warfare cannot so ge on any longer.' "
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