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Show THE SUBMARINE FAILURE (New York Globe ) According tr information furnished to the Associated Tress, Germany's submarine warfare between February 1 and March 11 destroyed seventy-eight seventy-eight British vessels of a tonnage of lfiOO tons or more. The vessels of this class in the British mercantile marine at the beginning of the campaign cam-paign numbered 8781. The subtraction subtrac-tion was 2 per cent of the whole. This is at the rate of approximately 9 per cent a year. It would take ten years i.. nrlnn mil V IlnllUt. I l - n tno jli iii.-m iiici vfwll.il" fleet. This computation allows nothing for new construction, nothing for the fact that it is easier to intercept old. slow-going slow-going tramps than the faster new vessels, ves-sels, and nothing for the development of a better defense. Taking these factors fac-tors into consideration, and the recent decrease In the number of submarine ictirus, it seems almost possible to say that the much vaunted submarine campaign of Germany is a demonstrated demonstrat-ed failure that Great Britain will not be blockaded. This conclusion is interesting, not only because of its bearing on the question of who is to win the war. but it is specially instructive to this country coun-try with respect to a matter much advertised ad-vertised It has been widely said in this country that the two blockades are alike that if we disregard the one we should disregard the other The whole pro-German propaganda In its latest, phase rests on this proposition. The two blockades are not alike. One is effective and the other is not. and effectiveness is vital when judging judg-ing of the legality of a blockade. If vessels for Germany should clear from our ports and ninety-eight out of every hundred should pet througb. then the British blockade of Germany would be illegal and we could legally defy It. Applying the same test to the attempted at-tempted blockade of Great Britain by Germany, and the blockade is obviously obvious-ly illegal. In addition, the small degree of ef-"fectiveness ef-"fectiveness that Germany has secured has been by resort to illepal methods. Groat Britain respects the rules governing gov-erning visit and search, while Germany Ger-many does not. One belligerent has respected international law, while the other has not. oo |