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Show TMK W,OfK.U)i:. I nt e ,-' j nr; fmirf. ft re ;'ivn out. by t h (j h T i f i ;. h a ri nri j r n i t y to ''on v i n f t h nation that t lie fibrin n -.un;i rnjn blockade if- oof -nrr-ml,', 'I he memo random rt:ft(-- tn:tt. from bi u;i r v I ", vh'-n the- '--;' rn;n l-lor-.y!" b' ;ei n, mi-t. mi-t. I H.r i-vrv ,'' :(! ; ti: rived and ',"' grilled. fur.n;r the ;n:e period f'rrninfi f.ubrna n ne, n-mU fvn hn:'h h ,r.-p.(.r. On br,;if, the reptjV,rd. i 'I f i ' i' 1 ' t,i Mm- ((''fiu.-ii) (ii't;i'i"" r -t n no, be ' i irif'i I c'J ;i I f nc her " U-1 U-1 '"' f 1 T' n- "' 1 I I r j ri r v i , ll.f. nv, : ii:.- -n4. " r:i i .-rutdj j uavian vessels engaged in the English trade and nho two French vessels. What the German loss has been is uncertain. un-certain. There have been numerous reports re-ports of submarine sunk, but the only official an noun cement has come from the Freueh admiralty, which states that a German submarine wad sunk by a light cruiser near Boulogne. The. statement, of the T.nglish admiralty, ad-miralty, however, is significant. It shows that the submarine blockade has not yet interfered greatly with "British maritime commerce. This is duo to the fact that tho British have refused to be frightened and have gone about their business almost as usual. They have accepted Vug risks and have suffered suf-fered some loss, but whether they can continue this policy indefinitely is doubtful. Practically all of the ships torpedoed 'by submarines have been slow vessels, unable to exceed twelve knots an hour. The ast boats have not fallen victims of the German under-water terrors, j When tho Aboukir, Cressy and Uogue were sunk by a. single German submarine, subma-rine, they were patrolling near the Dogger Bank at a speed of seven knots. Tt was at about this time that the English admiralty discovered the value of speed and zigzag sailing as a safeguard safe-guard against submarines, fcdneo tho disaster to the three warships just mentioned men-tioned other English warships have been sunk bv the submarines. One of them was lying at anchor in a harbor, and the others were boats traveling at slow speed for one reason or another. Here was one of the lessons of war, and the English have availed themselves of it in meeting the present crisis. Only the other day a fast steamer out of Boulogne Bou-logne dodged a submarine torpedo and escaped. In the last ten days not a single English warship has been sunk by a submarine, and hundreds of fast merchant vessels have traversed the danger zone and come out with flying colors. |