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Show TOO LATE. Whatever success a new submarine raid on our coast may attain will hardly hard-ly suffice to encourage the German people peo-ple after the failure of the offens-lve in France. The terrible thought will be forced home on them that their arrogant arro-gant admiralty, which boasted blindly of what the U-boats would do, awoke too late to the "American peril," as the South German papors describe it. To sink a cruiser or battleship is a spectacular feat, but it accomplishes little in the way of halting reinforcements reinforce-ments for our million men in France. The million are there and the second million are going rapidly. The first umiuii ia nuiiing um enemy oacit irom Paris, frustrating his great offensive and bringing about a turn in the tide almost a year ahead of schedule. The submarine attack on our coast if one is in progress will be utilized by the militarists to revive the drooping spirits of the Germans. The exploits of the U-boats will be advertised in every part of the empire in the hope that the people's thoughts may be withdrawn with-drawn from the accumulating detail of the disaster in France. It is not unlikely that the most skilful skil-ful U-boat commanders have been sent to this side of the Atlantic in the hope of achieving a masterstroke and spreading spread-ing terror among our people. But all the militarists' hopes are in vain. Already Al-ready we have accomplished a great part of what we set out to do, whereas the Germans wasted their time in boasting boast-ing and failed to do even what thev might have done. |