Show AMERICA IGNORANT OF REAL MENACE or OF U BOATS S By Harry B. B Hunt S Special Staff Dispatch WASHINGTON D Ti P. P nril 7 I I J 1 I I America does docs not yet et after a year car carot of ot ruthless submarine warfare ane and nine months of or nominal participation in the war realize the gravity of ot the menace Q of the German ea terrors The American people and the I civilian populations of or England I France and Ital Italy havo have been permitted permitted permitted per per- to know only one side of or the submarine situation situation and and that only in part The They have havo been told as is true that counter measures against submarines submarines submarines sub sub- marines an are aref sinking moro more of or them each month that shipbuilding programs programs pro pro- grams are projected that will will will-if If carried car car- pro pro-I ried ned out virtually out virtually offset losses next year rear If It continued at their present rate But the allied governments have not dealt frankly with their people in dl discussing submarine losses General statements have been made as to the seriousness of ot the situation but actual facts as to vessels and tonnage sunk have been carefully hidden In official archives and the public given only blanket statements each week that so man many ships over 1600 tons were lost last week and so soman man many under 1600 tons HUGE LOSSES From such vague ague and unimpressive reports it has b been en impossible for tor the tho public to construct any picture of ot the cumulative immensity of or th the submarine submarine sub sub- marine lo losses se or the continuing daily Jail devastation de wrought on shipping b by bythe bytho the tho kaisers kaiser's U boats I have Just had such Buch a n. picture however It was revealed rc to me In Ina Ina ina a serIes of ot official reports containing tho the text of ot Germanys Germany's own statements statements state state- ments as aR to her submarine achieve achieve- ments These submarine victories are reported dan daily b by German wire wire- less Picked up by the British admiralty ad ad- wireless they often form the first information the English government government govern govern- ment has a as to shipping losses Check on thorn them over a long period has haR established them as absolutely authentic and these German wireless reports form a part of ot the British admiralty's oCI official lal records of ot SUbmarIne submarine submarine sub sub- SUb marine losses I have picked at random German I wireless reports for tor a period of or one week last hist December Thc They picture ns as no British or French announcements announcements announcements announce announce- ments do what It really going on In Inthe Inthe inthe the submarine zone German Wireless Dec 20 German submarine commander Lieutenant Commander Viebig sank sankin in English channel five steamers r with aggregate tonnage of or under the strongest counter measures of ot j I the enem enemy Among these was the armed deeply laden steamer Armenia I formerly a German steamer rc registered red tons traveling in convoy escorted b by four tour destroyers Two deeply laden steamers were I shot out of ot a convoy which was strongly escorted b by destroyers and trawlers one of ot them being armed The same fate tate overtook a large armed strongly escorted steamer of or about gross ross tons Further the French steamer steam steam- I er Ango Anlo gross registered tons deeply laden was met o on her way WRY to I Falmouth and torpedoed I German Wireless s Dec 21 Submarines have o sunk In the tho last few tow days das in the neighborhood of I GUon Russian frigate Tasmania and I the French steamer There I also have been sunk unk In the neighborhood neighborhood neighbor nel I hood of ot Alicante Norwegian steamer r Crathorne 2607 tons the North i American Owasco formerly German Gennan tons tois armed English steamer i Minorca 1145 tons armed Canadian I steamer Gordon 1493 tons and the i armed North American steamer Alemania Alemania Ale Ale- mania in neighborhood of ot Cartagena I the Norwegian steamer Adour 1920 tons In the neighborhood of ot Valencia Valencia Valen Valen- cia the tho armed English steamer mer Goila Gona I the tho armed English steamer steam r and In neighborhood of ot Op Oporto Portuguese Portuguese Por tu tugboat boat P Portuguese uese fishing steamer Argus and a sailing ship MORE German Wireless Dec 22 22 23 By ny activity of ot German submarines in Bristol channel the English chan chan- nel an and the Nor North l' l sea s-ea- s four steamers tr steamers one sailing vessel and three En English lIsh trawlers have been destroyed among them being a ap de deeply pl laden Jaden English steamer Ii as well as the armed French Lo Le Pierre while on her way with coal from Cardiff to St. St Malo As re regards regards re re- gards the tho sinking of ot two of ot the English English English En En- glish trawlers it was possible to their names Courage and j Gazelle Se Several eral artillery hits were I made upon a freight steamer sailing in the direction of ot the Bristol channel I In SIn the Mediterranean sea sen eleven steamers and five sailing vessels i totaling tons have been en deI destroyed de de Among the ships destroyed I were two very large steamers which were shot while in convoy In the theS 1 I eastern Mediterranean and land the armed armedI S I steamer Clan tons and the Console tons One I of oC the vessels destroyed In the west 1 Mediterranean had a cargo o of ot munitions muni I Ions or explosive material Fresh submarine successes in the I barred zone around England gross oss registered tons of shipping Among the ves vessels el was a full rigged ship of cf 2000 tons on her way to France with Ith a R. cargo of ot steel te l. l t tobacco and wood and also two large steamer steam steam- er en ers One of the steamers was shot while in a convoy of cruisers r de destroyers destroyers de de- and trawlers LARGE STEAMERS German Wireless Dec 24 I In the English channel on th the Baltic altie coast and on tho the fa east t coast of ot-E- ot England 2300 STOSS gross registered er d ion tons I of or shipping were sunk Among the ships ship destroyed wore were two large I j tf freight steamers which were destroyed destroyed de de- de in the tho channel in spite of ot very stron strong counter action on the part of the enem enemy as well as aJ an armed English ste steamer having havinS the appearance of the Leyland liner Norwegian |