Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion (1916) (14593474658)

Identifier: neutralitycrucif00szin (find matches)
Title: Neutrality? The crucifixion of public opinion
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: (Szinnyey, Stephen Ivor), 1863-1919. (from old catalog)
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 Neutrality Press
Publisher: Chicago, The Neutrality press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation



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bunting amount to betweendear cousins? There is the English beast, The Mistressof the Sea, clutching and holding in its paws the flag of theUnited States, which insures her a free sea, denied and dis-puted to her old double-cross bunting by Germanys cleverand efficient submarine fleet. CHAPTER LI I Misuse of Old Glory. The German Government has made so far public, throughthe German Embassy, the following memoranda on the misuseof the American flag by British vessels since the beginning ofthe German submarine war: February 3—An unknown freighter sailed from Dover toNorelight, near Sheerness, under the American flag. February 7—The Lusitania passengers report that, by orderof the British Admiralty, the American flag was hoisted whennear the Irish coast. February 11—The Orduna sailed in danger zone under theAmerican flag. April 23—The Dunedin, which arrived at Newport News onApril 22, when on the sea, hoisted the American flag in order toescape a German submarine. NEUTEALITY 161
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*«• * •*>■ -N. Y. World. SAFETY FIRST, 162 NEUTBALXTY May 30—An unknown steamer hoisted the American flagwhen near Gallop fireship and seemed to have Swedish nation-ality marks on her bow. June 3—The Carnavon sailed on April 21 under the Amer-ican flag and the name of Texan. (Eeport is confirmed byCaptain Horace Jefferson of Brooklyn, N. Y., master of Steam-ship Southerland of Savannah.) The Carmantshire (or Carbavonshire), when entering Bahia,is declared to have had her port of register altered from Bel-fast to Boston, United States of America. And last, but not least, the Barajong, to which the writerreferred to on another page. In addition, the German Government gives long lists of viola-tions of other neutrals distinctive marks, as follows: Seven British ships misused Danish flag; Greek, one misuseof flag; Dutch, seventy-one; Norwegian, thirteen; Swedish,twenty-one; Spanish, four. In all European naval circles, particularly in those of theneutral countries, it is wel