The Elbert County tribune., 1915-07-09
PLAN TO EXTEND
UNDER-SEA WAR
KAISER TO CARRY SUBMARINE
WARFARE TO AMERICAN
WATERS.
U. S. P0WERLESS TO ACT
NEW BLOCKADE AIMED AT SHIP
PING OF QUEBEC AND
HALIFAX.
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western Newspaper Union News Service.
London, July while negotiations
are in progress between the United
States and Germany on the nature of
German.'s reply to President Wilson's
demands that Americans on neutral
ships he protected, it became known
that Germany Is to carry her subma-
rine warfare into the waters of Amer
lea itself This fact is regarded as
significant forecast of what Ger
manys answer will be to the United
States contention that the Kaiser's
underwater campaign, imperiling the
lives of neutrals and non-combatants
should be modified.
News of the decision to extend the
range of submarine activity across the
Atlantic came from Berlin and is
credited to an official close to Ad-
miral Won Tirpitz, who is in charge of
Germany's submarine operations.
1t was said that the Germans plan
to establish an underwater base off
the coast of Canada and with fleet
of submarines sink vessels leaving
from Halifax and Quebec. Military
authorities who have studied the Ques-
ton say that the plan is entirely feas-
ible, as is proved by the wide range
recently shown by the Teutons under
water fighters.
Diplomats assert that the Monroe
doctrine would not cover such move
and that the United States could make
no further demands on Germany in
regard to her submarine campaign
than have already been contained in
President Wilson's last note to Berlin.
With the exception of certain sec
tors between the Vistula and the Bug,
the Austro-German rush in the east
ern war zone seems to be losing mo-
mentum
London.-Important successes for
the allies operating in the Dardanelles
with loss of 10000 men for the
Turks are reported by Gen. Sir Ian
Hamilton.
London Five Swedish vessels
were seized Sunday in the Baltic sea
and taken to Swinemunde," says the
Copenhagen correspondent of the
Morning Post. They are the steam
ers Liguarda, Waermeland and Hen
rik Wicandre and the sailing vessels
Orvar and Hoppet"
London. = The British steamship
Anglo-Californian, of 1888 tons, bound
from Montreal, arrived It Queens
town with a number of dead on board
as the result of being shelled by a
German submarine. Twelve men were
killed, including the captain. Eight
injured men were landed ct Queens
town.
London, July S.-The first great
naval battle of the war in the Baltic
sea has been fought, and meager re-
ports received from Copenhagen in
dictate that the German fleet has been
defeated by the Russians.
To add to the citation in London at
the reports of the Russians sea vic
tory, the news came that a British
submarine on June 26 sunk Turkish
transport No. AZ, with a shipload of
troops in the Sea of Marmora.
German boats made their big
gest haul since the torpedoing of the
Lusitania. They sent to the bottom
the big steamer Caucasian, the liner
lnglemoor. whose tonnage exceeded
that of the Leyland liner Armenian.
the steamer Welbury, the schooner l..
C. Tower and bark, all British ves-
sells. The Inglemoor was the largest
and one of the newest vessels of the
Moor line of twenty weight
The German forces have reached
the Russian positions at Krasnik, in
the southern district of Russian Po-
land.