Show Italians Waiting to Receive Advancing Austrians in the Mountains ins i iI I S c t a I I If I I'S S 'S b i f 4 L I c II SS I 7 j S The above photograph gives an excellent idea of the nature of the fighting on the thickly wooded moun- moun of the Austrian frontier Whole forests are being cut down to get logs for breastworks German Officers and Men of Netted Submarines Cut Cat Throats Throat to Avoid Capture NEW YORK Oct 20 That That the I British navy has dealt the German I submarine its death blow was the tho statement made yesterday by Chester Chester Ches Ches- ter Thompson who has Just arrived I from North Africa by way of Italy France and England Mr Thompson Thomp Thomp- is general manager of the potash potash potash pot pot- ash son mines in Abyssinia in which th the British government has had bad a large gov is concession for many lItany years and here to purchase pumps and other machinery for operating the mines the substance which and producing of or orall Is essential to the manufacture all ammunition for tor the allies Only the cold and flawless verdict ver ver- diet dict of history will record the full marvelous achievements achieve achieve- measure of the ments meats wrought by the British nav navy is France rance said Mr Thompson Just beginning to realize the wonders wonders won won- ders performed on the sea by her ally For months the French rench were dissatisfied with the part England played on land But today toda with the English land line lengthening hourly houry and Britannia's sea supremacy supremacy supreme acy asserting itself more and more positively France is aglow with enthusiasm en en- over the accomplishments accomplishments' of her powerful partner For the first time since the war began the allies alUes are acting in concert with organized organized or or- efficiency In fact Ute tIle cooperation co co- co operation between Italy and France Franceis is remarkable They are fighting S as asa asa a unit How Hov much of energy enterprise ingenuity and persistent daring was required ot of Great Britain to smash Germanys Germany's submarine campaign it will take the world years to date The grandeur of the sway of Britain's mercantile marine did not dawn on anyone while Germany was sinking one of ot every forty five vessels yes yes- sels traversing British waters vaters which was the highest d degree gree of ot destructiveness destructiveness destruct- destruct heness attained by the Teutonic submarines Yet when four forty-four of forty five vessels pass to and fro In safety what ground is there for saying Britain's commerce has been seriously interrupted And the percentage of ot vessels sunk nowadays nowadays nowa mown days by German submarines is even more negligible In the last sev weeks nineteen German submarines s s have been captured captured captured cap cap- by th flip British with the piano wire nets they have woven as a I shroud over the grave of the kaisers kaiser's I hopes Two weeks ago three submarines were caught in these nets In one night light fn In the River Forth near Glas Glas- gow When they were brought to the surface only one man among the officers and crews was found who Lad had not cut his own throat to escape escape escape es es- es- es cape capture and he had killed himself him him- himself self with poison polson It is an inspiring sight to observe observe ob ob- serve the dispatch with which vessels ves yes sels are loaded and unloaded at Liverpool London and Portsmouth Shipping activity continues at those ports with seemingly utter indifference ence to fo the fact that a great war waris waris waris is being waged But London is not without its exhibits of the ghastly side of the war I was there Just after a recent recent recent re re- re- re cent Zeppelin had for Its objective the Bank of England The Zeppelin missed it by only three blocks The Liverpool railway station station sta sta- tion Uon was destroyed and ami not one of nine forty persons waiting for a atrain atrain atrain train escaped alive Fully persons per sons were killed Jellied in that raid The English are more sublimely confident than ever that eventually they will win ad d trample Germany in the dust But there is a feeling feeling- that tremendous mistakes have been made and that much of the best blood of the empire has been pour poured d dout out DUt unnecessarily Only the laborIng laboring labor ing classes seem to lack lacle a sense of the seriousness of the situation The demand for potash for explosives explosives explosives ex ex- ex- ex plosives necessitates our increasing the productive capacity of ot the North African mines tenfold and we must have American machinery to do it Before the war Germany produced produce 95 5 per cent of the worlds world's output of potash and Japan less than 1 per cent ent Americans had bought mines in Germany oLly otly to have an em em- embargo bargo barge placed upon them The price of f potash has advanced from 13 to o 25 a ton The contracts for the equipment to ho be placed by Mr Thompson willbe will willbe willbe be distributed among the Bethlehem Bethle Bethie hem iem Steel company p ny the American and British Manufacturing company and other concerns The American and British company will make nake tho the pumps |