The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-02-17
No Change in the Situation is Expected as Eng
land and Germany Do Not Intend
TO Make Concessions.
OTHER TROUBLES FOR UNCLE SAM
Japan and China May Mix up, While Mexican
Revolution is Becoming More Serious
and May Need Attention.

j Germans will try to strike hard at
the very outset in order to terrify
/ timid ship owners and influence
them to keep their vessels in their
/ home ports.
! The sinking OF the British collier
Dulwich, twenty miles west OF Cape
De La Heve late yesterday, is accept
ed as the opening Of the German CAM
paign. While advices from Havre
say that the crew OF the Dulwich was
given time to collect their effects be-
i fore the vessel was torpedoed, off,
I cials here declare their information
say. the German submarine launched
her torpedo as soon as she came to
the surface and Immediately made
saved was declared by reports re-
ceived here to have been due entire
| ly to the fact that the torpedo failed
to sink the collier Immediately and
she remained afloat long enough for
Captain Hunter and his men to
launch their boats.
All Of the neutral vessels reaching
British ports today from Scandi-
| navian points had their national col
! ors painted all around their super
works. In addition al Of theaa had
their names very prominently dis
played, some OF the regular liners
having them arranged with electric
bulbs forming the letters in order
that there could be no mistaking
| their identity.
The further measures that the Brit
/ ish government is to take to harass
Germany. are still under considera-
! ton. 1t is not believed they will be
made public until Germany has
shown her hand. But that they will
/ include the making OF food stuffs for
Germany absolutely contraband and
! will also provide for more stringent
restrictions on shipments to neutral
countries, is certain. Whether there
will also be proclaimed a close block
ade of Germany's coasts cannot be
learned as yet.
How II Will be Done.
HAVRE, Feb. IL Twenty-Five
members OF the crew OF the Dutch
/ collier Dulwich, were landed here to-
/ day. Seven others have been landed
at Fecamp and two are missing
J The Dulwich, loaded, was enroute
from Hull to Rouen when on Tuesday
she was stopped by a German sub
marine, twenty miles north Of Cape
! De La Heve. The crew were given
twenty minutes to collect their be-
| longings and take to the boats, after
which the collier was torpedoed and
/ sunk in twenty minutes. The French
4 destroyer Arquebuse. rescued the
members of the crew, who were
brought here. 1t is believed that this
attack was forerunner of the Ger
man submarine raid scheduled to
! commence tomorrow.
| No One to Be Spared.
WASHINGTON, Feb 17.-Relief
| ships which enter the new German
naval war zone surrounding England
will be as liable to attack and de.
struction as If they were British war
! craft or merchantmen, according to
German embassy officials here today.
Disguised as relief ships, English
! merchantmen have already negotiateM
/ the war zone safely, it was asserted,
! German submarines allowing them to
/ pass in the belief that they were
/ bound on mission of mercy Conse-
! quently, declared German diplomatic
| officials, there must be no exemption
! in the future of any nationality or
! class Of suspected ships entering the
| forbidden area: so relief craft will
be blown out Of the water as ramorse.
/ Iy as if they were dreadnaughts.
No Answer Yet.
| WASHINGTON. Feb. 17.-What
protection If any. this government in
tends to give the 1000 Americans
heading into Germany's forbidden
war zone, or what it will do to shield
! future passengers and commerce, was
/, this Afternoon diplomatic secret. Sec
retary of State Bryan himself declin-
ed ..to outline any policy" nor would
he indicate whether his silence was
! due to the fact that up to the early
! afternoon Germany's answer to Amer
! ica's war zone protest had not ar
j rived.
Both state and navy department Of
Acials DENY they had received any
German suggestion that American
warships could safely convoy Ameri-
can merchantmen through the death
| zone They indicated they do not in
tend to follow such course.