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Show ! GRUMBLINGS HEARD ill mmm People Losing Faith in the Promises Made Regarding Submarine Warfare. COPENHAGEN7, via London, June 2, ll:.'iO a. in. Private advices from Germany Ger-many tell of growing dissatisfaction with the results of the ruthless submarine sub-marine campaign and the absence of ' any indications that it has brought the , desired peace near at hand. i During their long campaign for the unrestricted use of submarines the advocates ad-vocates of this measure made very def- 1 inite promises of immediate results. "Two or three months" was the phrase used everywhere in street and newspaper newspa-per arguments in regard to the time it would take to bring England to her knees, ready for peace. Grumblings now are heard that although al-though four months have passed England Eng-land shows no signs of weakening, but on the contrary seems determined to prosecute the war more bitterly than ever. Questions have been recently asked tho correspondent by Germans here, not in official positions, who are disgruntled disgrun-tled over the results of the submarine campaign as to what would be the effect ef-fect in the United States if the submarine sub-marine warfare were now abandoned. Tho government, however, shows no Bigns of weakening and now is engaged en-gaged in a vigorous publicity campaign to bolster up the waning confidence at home and quiet the complaints of neutrals. neu-trals. PARIS, June 2, 4:40 a. m.-An effort ef-fort on the part of German Catholics to get into communication with the ' French Catholics on the subject of peace is revealed in La Croix by Mon-1 Mon-1 signor Baudrillart, rector of the Catholic Catho-lic institute in Paris. "On May 18, last," writes -Monsignor i Baudrillart, "there was held at Olten a meeting of Swiss Catholics, summoned by the famous German Centre Deputy Erzberger. The latter obtained the assistance as-sistance of Swiss Catholics, with a view to taking action with the entente bishops bish-ops in favor of an early peace. ' 1 Erzberger 's motive, which he permitted per-mitted expression before his most trusted friends, was this: 'Germany is at the end of her resources and must have peace as soon as possible.' " M. Baudrillart says he rejected the advances thus made" and gives his reasons rea-sons for so doing, declaring it was not for the Catholics to enter into relations with the enemy. |