Renter's Agency sent to the papers of Wednesday the text
of Germany's answer to the American Note on the use of submarines against merchantmen, of unanchored mines, and of neutral flags. The German Government say that they would be willing to abandon the use of drifting mines—Britain of course bas not employed these illegal weapons—and would modify their use of submarines against merchantmen if merchantmen would forgo the use of arms and of neutral flags, and if Germany were allowed to import food for her civil population as well as fodder and the • raw material of industries. In other words, Germany says: "If Britain surrenders the advantages of her naval supremacy
and lets us have all the food and raw materials we want, an will cease sowing the seas with mines and committing murder." Diplomatic impudence could not go much further
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