OCR Text |
Show I NEW PHASE OF THE GREAT WAR. English papers challenge Germany to do hor worst and reply to the "paper blockade" of English waters bs declaring Great Britain now win apply her full sea power regardless of any rules of warfare. Is Europe about to lapse into barbarism? bar-barism? Two of the greatest powers on earth are at grips and neither one is disposed to yield any advantage to he gained by might. The German submarine attacks on shipping should prove a tremendous difficulty for Great Britain to overcome over-come If not successfully met, England Eng-land is in danger of suffering the effects ef-fects of famine before the blockade Jr. six months old. Wp wonder if our naval authorities still regard the submarine as not to he compared with a battleship in offensive of-fensive strength Our opinion is the under-sea craft will be the most destructive de-structive warship of the future. There is one way open for England to lessen the efficiency of the German Ger-man submarines and that Is to at tempt a close blockade of the German Ger-man naval bases. Tf the German blockade makes headway and the destruction of ships reaches startling proportions, the allies al-lies in Flanders will be compelled to begin an aggressive campaign designed de-signed to recover the coast line of Belgium, In an effort to make untenable unten-able any submarine base along that part of the North sea, and at the same time the fleet under Admiral Jellicoe will be forced to strike at the west coast of Germany, at Heligoland, Heligo-land, the mouth of the Elbe and the Kiel canal, a task of great hazard owing to mines, submarines and land batteries. an |