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Show TO STAGE BATTLES in immm Germans Are Said to Be j Planning- a Series of Submarine Sub-marine Attacks. PURPOSE IS NOT CLEAR Thought, However, That the Starving of Italy Is the Main Object. By C. C LA 3f F AiwE A, International News Service Stafl Correspondent. ROME, F-b. 15. According- to a report that has just reached lot at shipping circles, this winter, as was th.e case last year, tine Mcdit rranenn will be the theater thea-ter of an intf nsified suhmi- rir.e taic-paitrn, taic-paitrn, tiie immediate and real objects of which are anything but clear. The r c p o r c , which reached Italy vi a Switzerland. ad.ls ; hat in December last (he 1 ierman admiralty decide! to transfer trans-fer to the Ionian. Az an and Tyrrhenian Tyrrhe-nian s-as a number of lre submarines winch had been formerly stationed along the French coasts and around the British Brit-ish isles. The reason given for this unexpected un-expected move i that during the winter win-ter months the submarine an work with greater success in southern seas, where weather conditions are unioubteuiy more favorable to L'-boat warfare. Kalian iiava! critics, commenting on the subject, agree that the central empires' em-pires' proposed new submarine offensive is, above all, a now blow aimed at the Knghsh armies operating in Palestine and Meci'Oiamia, and to the allied am:y a i S a i o n i k i . all of w h. ic h receive the: !" supoli-s from Fr.ziand and Canada. It is extremely probable, these critics say. that tiie submarine campaign may prove the- forerun ner of the often announced T ureo-C-erman offensive against Jerusalem Jerusa-lem and Bus-cad. Other writers on nautical subjects believe be-lieve that the hope of starving Italy and thus undermine her resistance at the fronc. is aiso one of the objects of the new s u b ma r i n e cam pa i g n . Adrnirp.l del Bono, Italian minister of marine. mteriewed on the work of the navy and tiie possibility of coping with the new submarine menace, stated that the methods adopted by thj Italian ad-mi ad-mi rt: tV for 'Keeping under control the submarines h.ave been copied by every allied al-lied navy. "What we have done and what we are doing agains? thp submarine." Admiral dei Bono said, '"wilt only be revealed when the history of the present war can be freely written. What I can say today to-day without giving a ny detail, is" that the Italian navy is successfully soivins the task of f: shinier the submarine and j protecting allied traff.c in the Mediterranean." |