WHO ARE THE HUNS?

326 The Monroe Doctrine and Neutrality.
Even the courteous policy of the United States towards
Japan in the matter of the Turtle Bay question in April 1915,
offers a glaring contrast to the attitude of Washington in
1901-2 when Germany's quarrel with Venezuela brought up
the mere ghost of a suspicion that the Monroe Doctrine might
be violated by Germany. Although Germany at that time
demanded nothing more from Venezuela than some security
openly, instead of making for England, she proceeded to a naval station which
the English maintained in Brazilian waters, as has been established, off the
Abrolhos Isles near the coast of Bahia. Here she took aboard men and ammunition,
and proceeding southward, joined the strong English squadron, which
lay there in wait for the German ships.
2. The "Kôlnische Zeitung" reports: According to the Chilean military
paper, "Gazette Militaire," which appears in Santiago, Admiral Cradock, on
the day before the naval battle off Coronel, caused a lieutenant and four men
from the "Good Hope" to erect a wireless station upon the island of Mocha.
After the destruction of the greater part of the Cradock squadron on the 1st of
November, this station still remained in communication with the remaining
ships. The five men were taken off six weeks later by the armored cruiser,
"Canopus." The Chilean paper calls special attention to the fact that Admiral
Cradock ordered the erection of this station upon the island, so that he might
have exact information as to the movements of the enemy squadron.
3. A particularly grave case of the violation of Chilean neutrality attended
the sinking of the "Dresden," in Cumberland Bay, part of the island of Juan
Fernandez. The ship lay, damaged and without coal, only 400 metres from
the shore. In spite of the protests of the German commander, three English
ships opened fire. The English commander replied, in true English fashion,
that he had orders to destroy the "Dresden" wherever he found her. He left
the rest for the diplomats to settle. Thereupon the Germans themselves blew
up the ship, which was lying in Chilean waters. A Chilean trading vessel lying
near was' hit by the shot from the English ships. Such is English regard for
neutrality. England offered an excuse since Chile proved that the German
ship was already interned. Chile was again to blame in the matter of the "Glasgow,"
which she illegally allowed to go free, whereas the German ship was
treated in the strictest manner, Chile was rewarded by the mockery of the
English press. "We apologize, and the "Dresden" remains sunk." (See the
exact description of this scandalous breach of neutrality in the Chilean newspaper,
"ElMercurio" in Valparaiso and "La Union," which, although friendly to
the Triple Entente, laid bare the scandalous trick. ("Munchener-Augsburger
Zeitung," No. 126, 1915).
The procedure in the question of the Panama Canal is also very serious.
The Union supports the Triple Entente by forbidding the import of contraband
and damages Germany by the one-sided way in which it creates difficulties
in coaling in Central America.