Show UP PATROL A BOATS GUARD BERNSTORFF READY TO SAIL sAi SUBMARINES SUBMARINES' 1 WORK IN MEDITERRANEAN ALARMS IT iTALIANS 27 Boats U-Boats Said to Be Op Ope crating Between and Gibraltar By Camillo Camilla Cianfarra International News Service Staff Correspondent Cor Cor- respondent ROME Feb 14 The H.-The The Intensifies tion of submarine warfare In the and Mediterranean seas is isI I tho the source of the gravest grayest concern In InI I government circles If It the reports current cur rent at Genoa Naples and other port are only partially true the Mediterranean t Is now the scene of the most I bitter and relentless submarine ca cam of or the whole war I Official fl are nrc not available I The sinking of or Italian steamers or of ol I steamers directed to Italian Hallan ports port II l I Is I never nover announced and since the lie goy gov government I began to Insure Italian steam steamers ers directly even eyen Lloyds fall to lo an announce I flounce them ot i Notwithstanding the I tal taken en and tho the rigorous censorship I nothing has been p printed to confirm I the Swiss S report of a few ew month j ago ago that Germany would do her Jer u ul ut utmost I most to starve Italy Itay and et h her hei I Continued on nn page pace s 8 i ROME ROBE IS STIRRED BY BV BOAT U-BOAT WAR dAR IN MEDITERRANEAN Many Submarines Lurk in Italian Waters Takei Take i Heavy Toll Tall Continued from page 2 Industrial life in the tho hope of at inducing her to conclude a separate peace or of at least compel her to act ns as a peace peacemaker peacemaker peacemaker maker among the allies Ship owners an and brokers declare that of oC the tho daily average of ten al allied allied allied al- al lied and neutral vessels that have been sunk since December seven or eight have been sent to tho the bottom In tho Mediterranean l An Instance is lt related In which v of oC ten steamers that left Genoa to load cereals at an Argentine Argentine Argentine Ar Ar- gentine port only f ir fr-ir Ir e-Ir tr returned Of or orthe the missing six three were torpedoed on their way way- a to South America and the others were burned with their cargoes cargoes car car- goes on their return trip and within sight of at their homo home ports I According to a veteran sea captain known in ever every American port between between be be- tween Portland and Galveston no noless noless less than twenty seven submarines have bavo been sighted in the Mediterranean nean and are now operating between Gibraltar and I The Tho majority of them are stationed around Malta which Is a main station on the tho English route to India Australia Australia Australia Aus Aus- and South African colonies Also ever every Italian steamer plying be be- Sicily and Tripoli must touch there I |