THE German Pirate His Methods and Record By AJAX “ Ye shall love peace as a means to new wars—and the short peace more than the long. ” Fr. Nietzsche’s “ War and Warriors .” “ The German who loves his people, and believes in the greatness and the future of our home ... must not let himself be lazily sung to sleep by the peace-lullabies of the Utopians. ” The German Crown Prince in “ Germany under Arms .” “ Efforts to secure peace are extraordinarily detrimental to the national health so soon as

“ The German people is always right, because it is the German people, and numbers 87 million souls. ” [A] O. R. Tannenberg. The sea is a stern mistress. She demands from her sons both vigilance and skill in her service, and for the man who fails her the penalty is death. From generation to generation men have faced and fought the same dangers in every ocean. Going down to the sea in ships from a thousand different ports, the mariners of the world have triumphed or died like their fathers before

“ If Fate has selected us to assume the leadership in the Kultur-life of the peoples, we will not shrink from this great and lofty mission. ” [B] — Gustav E. Pazanrek. The Dutch steamer Gamma was proceeding from New York to Amsterdam on the 1st February, 1917, with a cargo of oilcake for the Netherlands Government. At 2.30 p.m. a German submarine appeared on the port bow, steering towards the ship. Without making any signal, the submarine at once opened fire. She fired six shells, one of which s

“ The German is a hero born, and believes that he can hack and hew his way through life. ” [C] Heinrich v. Treitschke. In February, 1915, Germany declared a blockade of Great Britain and Ireland. Her official declaration stated, amongst other things, that from February 18th every hostile merchant ship found in the waters around the British Isles would be destroyed, “even if it is not always possible to avoid dangers which thereby threaten the crews and passengers.” Neutral ships were also warned

“ We Germans represent the latest and highest achievement of European Kultur. ” [D] — Professor A. Lasson. On the 25th November, 1914, the British Admiralty announced that on 26th October, 1914, the French passenger steamer Amiral Ganteaume , while on passage from Calais to Havre with upwards of 2,000 unarmed refugees, including a very large proportion of women and children on board, was torpedoed. By pure chance and the greatest good fortune, the British steamship Queen was within a short dista

“ The German soul is God’s soul: it shall and will rule over mankind. ” [E] — Pastor W. Lehmann. The German Naval Prize Regulations naturally contain instructions for the guidance of German naval officers whose duty brings them into contact with neutral shipping. Thus, Article 81 directs that—“In stopping and searching a vessel under a neutral flag the commander must avoid, as far as possible, diverting her from her route. He will in general endeavour to cause the vessel as little inconvenience