On the 25th March, 1916, the Divisional Naval Transport officer at Boulogne writes: "I personally inspected the _Sussex_ this morning, and was shown by the French authorities pieces of the torpedo which had been found in the ship, thus establishing the fact that she was torpedoed." The reckless and unscrupulous methods of the German were well illustrated in the sinking of the _Sussex_. The U-boat commander obviously took no pains to discover what kind of vessel he was going to attack. He simply fired a torpedo and disappeared. Afterwards he tried to shuffle off the responsibility for his deed by a number of falsehoods. While admitting that he had destroyed a certain vessel at a certain time, he declared that he believed her to have been a war vessel of the _Arabis_ class. Stories founded on his statements were freely circulated by the German Government; but they were effectively answered by a British official reply in the following terms:-- 1. There is no resemblance whatever between a vessel of the _Arabis_ class and the _Sussex_, and it is quite impossible to mistake one vessel for the other. 2. The Germans are condemned out of their own mouths by their statement that the commander of the German submarine fired on some vessel at a certain moment. Now that certain moment was precisely the time at which the _Sussex_ was attacked. 3. The German submarine commander admitted that he had destroyed the fore part of the vessel he attacked. No other ship but the _Sussex_ suffered in this way. It was unfortunate for the Germans that the _Sussex_, although so badly damaged, could be towed in and beached. Had she sunk, the German contention that her fate was due to a mine would have been more difficult to refute. When, however, pieces of a torpedo were discovered on board, the method of her destruction was proved beyond all doubt. Meanwhile, on the 18th April, 1916, the United States sent a Note to the German Imperial Government. The Note pointed out that--"The _Sussex_ was never armed; she was a ship which, as is well known, was regularly employed only for the transport of passengers across the English Channel. She did not follow the route pursued by troop transports or munition ships. About 80 passengers, non-combatants of every age and both sexes, including citizens of the United States, were killed or wounded." The outrageous methods of German submarine warfare are so admirably exposed by the American Government in this official communication that we cannot do better than reproduce certain of the passages here.