Germany victory WW1 in first submarine offensive

Germany exempts passenger vessels from attack and the U-boat commanders obey orders so Bryan remains secretary of state. The Barralong incident goes ahead and the US makes a few mild protests

The problem as I understand it was that this is a broad definition - since passenger liners were converted to AMCs and troop ships, then the Germans are preventing themselves from attacking a load of legitimate targets.

Smaller passenger liners are probably not easily distinguishable from larger merchant ships, I don't know

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Grey Wolf
 
Germany exempts passenger vessels from attack
They didn't have to. The Brits armed their merchantment for self-defense (not even counting AMCs), & instructed them to report raiders & subs, which made them de facto naval auxiliaries, so not protected by the cruiser rules, which only applied to unarmed merchantmen.
 
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