Week
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contributor: Blakemore, William
issued: 2017-03-21
issued: 1915-07-17
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note: The Week A British Columbia Newspaper and Review The Official Organ of the Victoria Real Estate Exchange M XIII, No. 8-13th Year Victoria, B.C., Canada, July 17,1915 5c. a copy, $2.00 a year The German Note THE AMERICAN PRESS, with tbe exception of two or tluee Pro-German papers, is a unit in denouncing the German Note. They all agree in the view that it, evades the real point at issue, and evades it so clumsily as to offer by implication an insult to the intelligence of tbe American people, even if nn open insult, was not intended. The solo reason for sending tbe American Note wns the destruction of one hundred United States citizens by the sinking of the Lusitania. President Wilson asked specifically for a disavowal of this act by the German Government, and for practical guarantees that it would not be repeated. This gave an opening for the Imperial Government to express regret, to declare the act to have been in excess of its instructions or desire, to have offered such reparation as could be made, and to give a reasonable undertaking for tlie future protection of United Statos citizens travelling, as they have a right to travel, unmolested on the high seas, None of these opportunities hnve been accepted by Germany, a definite reply has been evaded, and instead a large portion of the note is taken up with an argument in justification of the Lusitania incident. Therefore, so far as the great International question of the rights of neutrals is concerned, the note ignores it entirely. Tbe justification offered for the sinking of the Lusitania is brutal to the verge of insult, and must be singularly distasteful to a great nation like the United States. Germany attempts to justify its action by blaming the British Government for the manner in which it has conducted its naval warfare, as if tbe conduct of Great Britain in this matter, even if it were what Germany alleges, could have any bearing on the obligations nf the latter power to a neutral nation. Such an argumen…
note: Publisher changes in chronological order: publisher not identified (1904-1906) ; The Week Publishing Co., Ltd. Offices (1906-1907) ; �The Week� Publishing Company, Limited (1907-1918) ; publisher not identified (1918-1920)
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Victoria (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0373894
language: English
lat: 48.428333
long: -123.364722
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Victoria : "The Week" Publishing Company, Limited
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
source: Original Format: Royal British Columbia Museum. British Columbia Archives.
type: Text