3 APRIL 1915, Page 2

and horror run through the comments. The New York World

holds the highest authorities of Berlin directly responsible. It was they who ordered the atrocities in Belgium, and now they have probably decreed the murder of helpless passengers on the ground that English people were not being sufficiently terrorized. In other words, Germany wishes to create a Belgium at sea. The New York Press says that the Dark Ages scarcely surpassed these atrocities. " Indelible is the stain on the naval name of Germany." The Stoats Zeitung, the chief German-American paper, of course excuses the crimes. Britain, it says, would starve millions of German women and children. The sinking of British liners is " the only proper answer."