The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1916-10-12
FOR PRESIDENT
Charles Evans Hughes
OF NEW YORK
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
Charles w. Fairbanks
OF INDIANA.
The WAR NEWS.

to report. The situation on all the fronts
was practically unchanged and the re-
ports as to the Roumanian movements
were conflicting and are not at this writ
ing made entirely clear. 1t is evident,
however, that they met with reverse
at the hands of the Austrians and Bull
garians, and further that they are not
acting in concert with the Entente, but
have engaged in the war on their own
hook with view to occupying territory
which they expect to hold when the war
ends. In this they are likely to be dis
appointed. As matters now stand they
do not seem likely to be of much aid to
the Entente.
There is no doubt whatever that the
internal affairs Of Germany are becom-
ing serious; that food is scarce and dis
contert and dissensons are rife. This
does not, however, mean that Germany
is beaten or that the end of the war is
in sight. If the Germans should be
driven back upon their own soil the peo-
pie would rally as one man to her de-
fence 8nd the siege would be a long and
costly one, in men and munitions, to her
besegers.
The Zepplin raids on Great Britain,
in which few noncombatants, mostly
women and children, have been killed
have had no effect on the war, but have
increased the 4etestation of Germany in
every civilized country and measurably
stimulated recruiting III the British Isles.
Of late several of their costly war
machines have been captured or des-
troyed-a s1rious loss to the invaders
because of the difficulty of obtaining the
material used in the construction of their
airships.
In the past week we have had Ger
many's submarine warfare brought to
our own shores. The German submarine
U-53 arrived in the harbor at Newport,
r. l., Oct. 7th, 1T days from Wilhelms-
haven, ''sent dispatches ashore to be for
warded to the German ambassador at
Washington, and put to sea after snort
STAY. Her commander said he was not
in want of supplies, but had everything
needed for three months. The U-53 was
next heard from as capturing and sink
ing ships eff Nantucket, in which she
was believed TO have been aided by an
other submarine, and it is thought that
there NAV be others. How they can
operate so far from base is something OF
a mystery and the only solution suggest
ed is that in advance Of their coming
fuel oil and other needed supplies had
been provided at designated places along
the coast In fact, some time ago it was
reported that the Germans were making
such provision for their ships, and it may
well be true But from Bridgeport, CT,
comes the startling statement, from one
said to be thigh in the councils of the
Allied Powers" that the y SO never
crossed the Atlantic but was built near
Boston and assembled and launched from
some point yet unknown along the At
lantic seaboard." This is possible. The
activities of the German propaganda in
this country may have taken that direc-
ton since the setting fire to munltlon
plants, the placing of bombs on outgoing
steamers and the efforts of their army
of paid orators and agitators to influence
public sentiment have been exposed. In
vestigatlons have shown that they have
an unlimited supply of money, contrib
uted by resident Germans and their SYM
pathisers and received from abroad. The
buildingof one or more submarines would,
so far as money is concerned, be feasible.
Warnings were sent all along the coast
on receipt Of wireless reports of the
operations of the U-53 and many steam
ers were held in port, but others had just
sailed and some sailed despite the warn
ing 1t was openly declared in Washing
ton Sunday night that the days opera
tons mark the opening of an organized
campaign in the waters adjacent to
America against all commerce of the
allies in general, and especially vessels
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pected that attacks will also be directed
at transports carrying troops from Can
ada and at British and French warships
in patrol duty off the coast.
The ships sunk off Nantucket Sunday
morning were four British steamers and
two neutral vessels, one Dutch and the
other Norwegian, all freighters but one,
the Stephano, which piled between New
York and Newfoundland, and had on
board SO passengers and crew of rs
men. The captain of one steamer re
ports that he was not warned, and the
others were given barely time to take to
their boats and were then left to shift
for themselves. The crew of one steamer
is missing, but the others were rescued
by torpedo boat destroyers sent out from
Newport. Nothing has since been heard
of the U-53, but submarines have been
reported in various places Officials at
Washington are still comforting over the
submarine question, but see no ground
for action in the case of the U53.
There is no real war news from abroad
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