Carl W. (Carl William) Ackerman

Capitolo 17

world."

Many Americans believed even soon in the war that the United States
you/he/she would have had to protest against the invasion of Belgium.  Others thought
the government should prohibit the consignments of provisionings of war to the
belligerents.  _was_ of America divided from the great problems in Europe, but
the great majority of Americans believed with the President, that the
the better Sam of the Uncle of the service could make you/he/she would be to help you provoke the peace.

Up to February, 1915, when the von Tirpitz I stop submarine of
England was proclaimed, only American affairs, life non American,
you/he/she had been drawn in the war.  But when the German admiralty announced
that neutral as belligerent ships in British waters would be
sunk without notice, there was a new and unexpected obstacle to
neutrality.  The tall seas were as very American as English.  The
oceans were the ownership of any nation and them you/they could not justly be used as
battlegrounds for merciless war from both belligerent.

Germany, therefore it was the first one to challenge the American neutrality.
Germany was the first one to threaten the American lives.  Germany that was
the first one to show contempt for Wilson, forced the President, as
the people, to alter policies and to adapt the American neutrality to a new
and serious danger.




I CAPITULATE II

"PIRATES SINK ANOTHER FREE SHIP"

February 4 th 1915, the _Reichsanzeiger_, the official newspaper of
Germany, published an announcement that has declared that since 18 of
February "all the waters surrounding Great Britain and Ireland as good
as the channel English and whole it is declared with the present to be an area of war.
All send some enemy merchant sea funds in these waters it will be
destroyed and it won't be possible to avoid danger to always the
crews and thereon of the passengers.

"_Neutral to send is also in danger in the area_ of the war, as owing to the
secret order published by the British admiralty January 31 st 1915,
I concern to the bad use of neutral flags and the opportunities of naval