From ‘The Threat of Grand Admiral von Tirpitz’, The Spectator, 9 January 1915:
THE Manchester Guardian of Tuesday published the text of the interview with Grand Admiral von Tirpitz which appear last week in the New York Sun. This was the interview in which Admiral von Tirpitz seriously proposed that German submarines might declare war on all enemy merchant ships. It is obvious that submarines would hardly ever be able to save the persons on board torpedoed merchant ships. Such warfare would be unmitigated murder, outraging not only the letter and spirit of all the Hague Conventions which Germany signed, but the customs of war as they were understood and practised long before the Hague Conferences were established.
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