Last Sunday the Elder, Dempster liner Falaba' was torpedoed south
of St. George's Channel by a German sub. marine, and about a hundred and tan lives were lost, including those of more than fifty passengers. This is the worst crime which Germany has yet committed at sea. Words could not do justice to its baseness and cruelty. To measure its inhumanity let us concede for a moment the terrible German point of view that it is justifiable to torpedo merchantmen bringing supplies into British porta. There was in the case of the • Falaba' no possibility of such a justification. The • Falaba' was a passenger ship, not a cargo vessel, and she was not arriving at a British port, but leaving it. The German submarine wan on the surface, and her crew talked with the 'Falaba' before the latter was torpedoed. There could be no mistake as to the character of the ' Falaba'
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