Germany’s announcement of unrestricted submarine warfare, and that “all ships, belligerent or neutral”, attempting to trade with the Entente Powers will be torpedoes at sight, irrespective of flag or cargo” was greeted by the Telegraph as her declaring “war on the whole world” in its headline of the main report in this move on page 7. The “last stage of barbarism” is how Archibald Hurd saw it in an analysis on the same page, whilst a typically damning leader on page 6 described it as “the most brazen-faced declaration of which history holds any record. Prussianism had gone mad; it threatens to involve humanity in its own destruction.” Not that the Germans would have it this way – according to them it was the Allies’ fault they were making this move!