From ‘News of the Week’, The Spectator, 24 July 1915:
The United States Government have received from Germany an admission that the American vessel ‘Nebraskan’ was sunk by a German submarine. The German Government, in apologizing and promising reparation, explain that no attack on the American flag was intended, and that the affair was an unfortunate accident. The German apology does not, of course, in any way modify the strength of the American case against German submarine warfare. Rather it increases it. For it is obvious that if Germany continues to act on suspicion, as she certainly must in the particular kind of warfare she conducts at sea, she is sure to kill many neutrals.
The only way to avoid killing neutrals is to act on the American demand that every ship challenged should be visited and the passengers be placed in safety before the vessel is sunk.
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