The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1914-10-18
SUBMARINE IS
A CRAFT WHICH
MUSTBEFEAREO
is A CHEAP VESSEL AND IN THE
FUTURE WILL MAKE PREPON-
,DERANcE ON SEA OF LARGE
POWERS LESS A NIGHTMARE
TO SMALLER COUNTRIES.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.


Asmterdam, Oct, 17.-Correspondence
Associated Press.-The sinking of
the British arnored cruisers Aboukir,
Hcgue and Greasy by the German sub
marine ~ 3" has not been without
effect in Holland and other small
this performance of a submarine is am
pie proof that in this relatively cheap
craft is to be found a wea pom which
any powerful navy must fear, and that !
possibly a means has been found which
Will make preponderance on the sea of
the large powers less of nightmare in /
the smaller countries than it has been.
The Dutch press generally has not
sa id much on the subject. The Danish
and Swedish papers have been less
reticent. An almost extraordinary re-
straint has been exercised by the Ger |
man and Austro- Hungarian papers. .
while the Italian press seems to De gem |
orally taking the view that the sub |
marine IS an arm of the small country /
which the Larger powers must respect |
after the destruction of the three Brit |
ish cruisers with a loss of 1,400 men !
and so ofTicers-the result of two hours |
work by a submarine with a crew OF !
twenty
The views expressed by an unnamed /
Norwegian admiral in the Christiania /
Morgenbladot of September q, may be !
taken as typical of what has been said ,
in Europe of the affair:
1.-THE efforts of the English to block /
ade the Baltic and the North Sea have
been given their death sentence since
a German submarine with q crew of !
twenty men managed to break through /
the cordons established. travel some 200 |
sea miles and from its base and slip
about easily in the waters controlled |
by the English fleet That the three
cruisers were old does not mean any
thing. The fate that overlook them,
can overtake tomorrow the entire En-
glsh battle fleet.
NO LONGER RLocKADED.
The North Sea and the Baltic are no
longer in the possession of the block
aiding English armored monsters. A
new era with a new method has be-
sun for the small powers when they
viii De able to maintain a large num-
Der of these cheap and efficient sea
arms. and in so doing even up thing
With powerful enemy whose greater
resources permitted him TO build up
navy entirely beyond the means of
small governm erts.'
While, he said, great restraint has
been exercised by the German. press
there has been noticeable a feeling of
renewed confidence in the naval phase
OF the European war. With pardonable
pride it is pointed out that the ~ 9"
and "U 81" after doing their deadly i
work, returned to their stations un-
harmed and are now ready for more
expeditions of that sort.
of the iS III-i
when it is borne in mind
that this boat was away from her
base for almost ten days, perfor-
nance with which another Of the "U''
boats also must be credited, according
to a published letter of a MEMBER of
its crew.
The letter in question described the
long journey above and under the water
its many hardships and the final re-
ward of the men by a glimpse into the
periscope which showed a flock of big
british men-of-war lying peacefully
at anchor, unmindful of the ''seawolf
with the iron skin who was proving
in the deep-to use the language of the
sailor from whose letter this is taken. :
1t was stated in the letter that the ]
trip had reconnaissance as it's purpose,
and that the captain RETAINED from
the torpedo in the tube, be-
cause doing so would have been con- S
trary to orders. 1t was further stated
that the trip was along the coast of !
Scotland and England.
1T would SEEM" says the Ostsee
Zeitung, that while the possession
of submarines by Germany was of no /
great concern to the British, the great s
a ctivity radius of the craft is" I'm {
that" comments the Vienna Freie t
Press, ''may be found an example of
the forsightedness for which the Ger {