Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-02-03 | Page 4 | Blockading England

BLOCKADING ENGLAND. Germany has resorted once again to tho most promising method of naval warfare against England. By using submarines whose sailing radius has been vastly increased, the Germans arc able to sink English merchant ships on any of the coasts of tho United Kingdom. King-dom. It is a sort of guerrilla warfare, but in an endurance test between the two couutries it stands the best chance of being the only successful method Germany Ger-many can employ. To accomplish its object time is required. Germany cannot can-not cut off England's food supply in a day or a week, but given time to construct con-struct fleets of long-distance submarines subma-rines she might be able to attain the object in a few months or a year. Everyone has been struck by the strange inactivity of the English submarines sub-marines for three or four months. This has been due to tho fact that German shipping, whether men-of-war or merchantmen, mer-chantmen, has been shut up in home harbors and difficult to get at. Dispatches, Dis-patches, however, recently recorded the safe arrival of an American vessel at Bremen without even the aid of a pilot. If a merchant vessel can run the risk of mines to enter a German harbor, surely the English submarines can afford af-ford to take a similar risk. On the other haud, the Germans have utilized their submarines to the best possible advantage. In a few months they have doubled the mailing radius and are able not only to operate on the ea?t coast of England and in the English Eng-lish channel, but to carry this &pe'ie of warfare to any point on the coasts of Great Britain. If England is to cope with this new danger she mibt display a similar ingeumty. Tt ill not do to rdy upon the methods nf naval v. ar f a r e that were w ell k u o w n at the beginning of hostiiit ies. Cnle?s E ng-land ng-land can match wits as well as ship:: with the Germans, she will find her foe gaining new advantages all the tirot. Once, more something bfl occurred to wake up the imperturbable Englishman. English-man. He sees now that it it possible to blockade his coa3ts by the smallest and the most easily constructed of warships. war-ships. Instead of spending $$,"0,V00 or $10,000,000 on a battbhip, the Germans Ger-mans can produce eighty or 100 submarines sub-marines for the santf prie,