The only German reply to the last American Note has
been a violent and practical one. The White Star liner Arabic,' 15,800 tons, outward bound from Liverpool to New -York, was torpedoed without warning sixty miles off the Irish coast by a German submarine at 9.30 on the morning of Thursday week, and sank in eleven minutes. Owing to careful precautions and preparations, the admirable discipline and heroism of the captain and his office's, the absence of panics and the fine weather, the great majority of those on board were saved. Eleven boats 'were launched, and the survivors were brought •to Queenstown. According to the latest figures, the Arabic' had on board one hundred and eighty-nine passengers and a crew of two hundred and forty-eight; of these eighteen passengers and twenty-one of the crew are missing. Amongst the former are two Americans. The news has created a profound impres- sion in the United States, where even the most moderate papers admit that relations with Germany are more strained than at any previous period of the -war.- The "unfriendly act" has been committed.
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