German submarine warfare; a study of its methods and spirit, including the crime of the "Lusitania," a record of observations and evidence . urn for the quiet obedience of a merchantship its adversary is bound not to sink the ship un-less it carries contraband, and in any event to respectthe lives of the civilian seamen and if a raider or blockader can establish, by care-ful search and by documents, his right to seize—orif unavoidable to sink—the victim-ship, he is stillbound under the familiar formula of the texts toplace her occupants in safety, and see that they arelanded at
German submarine warfare; a study of its methods and spirit, including the crime of the "Lusitania," a record of observations and evidence . urn for the quiet obedience of a merchantship its adversary is bound not to sink the ship un-less it carries contraband, and in any event to respectthe lives of the civilian seamen and if a raider or blockader can establish, by care-ful search and by documents, his right to seize—orif unavoidable to sink—the victim-ship, he is stillbound under the familiar formula of the texts toplace her occupants in safety, and see that they arelanded at a convenient port. And it is not from this civilized visit and searchthat ships crews try to escape in the present try to escape from being hustled with violenceinto fragile open boats and left to be the sport of oceantempests. In some cases the German brand of visitand search carries savageries even worse than thisrefined cruelty, as will appear presently. In otherwords the Germans have never for a single day car-ried out their side of the international code. Theyhave from the first claimed the right of setting harm- 42. SHIPS WHICH ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE less non-combatants adrift in small boats at any dis-tance from land. And yet with all the ignoble cun-ning of Shylock they have claimed their pound offlesh in dealing with America about attempted flightby submarine victims. As though the pitiable at-tempts of unarmed ships to make a run for safetygave to the iron squalidae a license to slay and de-stroy to the top of their bent! I saw the dismembered fragments of the master ofthe Anglo-Califomian, Captain Archibald Panlow,carried ashore in a burlap gunny-bag early on a dis-mal February morning in 1916, with the mangledbodies of eight of his men. Gouts of their flesh andlong splashes of their blood plastered the bridge-deck of their ship. The crime for which they diedwas that they preferred a chance at escape to a cer-tainty of being hounded into little boats in wild
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