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...such a vessel comes in sight of a submarine and, as was suggested by a Senator in debate, "Shoots at sight," the Germans would have a right under international law to consider it a hostile act and the beginning of formal war on the part of the United States. The immunity from armed attack except on due notice, which the United States justly claims for our merchantmen, holds only if such vessels do not attack nor resist nor flee...
...November, 1914, took the initiative in debarring the citizens of neutral nations from a portion of the European waters by setting aside a zone in the North Sea which, having been strewn with mines, neutrals were informed they would enter at their own risk? Suppose an American merchant vessel or passenger liner should decline to submit to such dictation, or, while engaged in non-contraband trade, en route for Hamburg or Bremen, or for some neutral European port, refused to regard the warning shot fired from a British vessel intent on its capture. In either case, would not American lives...
...specific warning in connection with the use of this species of weapon is, of course, out of the question. As regards the employment of her submarines, Germany, instead of withholding her threat until the moment of capture, as is the British practice, gives warning in advance that any vessel entering the prescribed area does so at its own risk. At the same time she mitigates the rigor of this decree by providing a restricted sea-lane which may be used by American passenger vessels with impunity. This restriction constitutes, to be sure, a decided handicap; but one can only...
...Verein has conferred honorary membership upon Captain Paul Koenig, of the submarine merchantman Deutschland, and that the Cercle Francais is this afternoon holding a reception at the Hollis Street Theatre for Mme. Sarah Bernhardt. They are both heroic figures of the war. Captain Koenig brought the first undersea merchant vessel across the ocean in the face of tremendous danger. His is one of the greatest scientific triumphs of all time. Mme. Bernhardt in spite of her age and a severe physical disability, is still the Divine Sarah of half a century past. She is acting in America to help...
...foot white vessel with her highly ornamented bow and sides, presented a most unusual spectacle, attracting the attention of everyone along the water front, as she moved up the harbor in tow of the Gloucester tug Eveleth. Off East Boston flats the tug Edwin L. Pillbury relieved the Eveleth and towed the galley up the Charles River, through the drawbridges to the basin where it was moored off the Technology buildings. The bridges on the Charles were crowded with people and another throng watched the odd-looking craft from the North End Park...