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Of course, the news of the torpedoing of the Lusitania on May seventh and of the great loss of American lives brought about a very critical situation, and naturally nothing was done with Kriege's propositions. It is unnecessary here for me to go into the notes which were exchanged between the two governments because all that is already public property.
Luckily, too, another field-cornet realised the situation, and kept the enemy well under fire, thus attracting Kriege's attention, who now got out of this scrape. When night fell we left the enemy alone, and went back to our laager. The next morning the outposts reported that the would-be assailants were all gone. How much this farce had cost General Kitchener we could not tell with certainty.
I spoke to von Jagow about this and told him that I thought that possibly this would seem to amount to a German justification of the British blockade of Germany. He said that this note had been drawn by Director Kriege who was their expert on international law, and that he would not interfere with Kriege's work.
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