The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-07-03
.NAvALISTS IN GERMANY
ARE SHOWING UNREST
Feel That Their Country Is Being
Forced by United States to Fight
With Ono Arm Tied.
WANT UNDER SEA WAR RESUMED
View With Little Patience Their Own
Slender Provision Stocks While En-
tente Allies Arc Able TO Tap the
GraDaries of Whole World.
BY WILLIAM BAYARD HALE.
Especial Correspondent of the Inter.
national News Service.)


national News Service.)
Berlin, via Amsterdam. June a.
Delayed -Does peace in the United
States depend on the weather in Eu-
rope?
This question is perhaps an over
sure formulation of distressing i'm
preston gathered here in the midst
of sue -ession of rainy days which
have made the present the coolest
June Germany has ever known
Happily for Germany the sun today
returned in his strength. There Is.
in fact. no special d niger the fail
ure of the seasons crops. The & ain
Is standing everywhere. tall and
thick. and If the law OF compensation
holds. the sunshine that may naturally
be expected in Jt.ly will mature a
splendid harvest.
Yet in the minds OF many dark
thoughts were raised as during the
past month anxious eyes were turned
towards the skies which withheld
! their ripening warmth and to the
consciousness of all was brought vivid
| ly home the contrast between a ma =
! ton dependent upon its own soil and
| benign weather and it's enemy able to
/ draw supplies of food from the wheat
| fields OF the world.
Might Start CiamOr.
! The danger is that. shoul1 the un-
! toward weather indeed continue,
| there might arise a popular clamor
for a resumption OF submarine activi-
ty which the government might find
extremely difficult to resist. II would
| be a great deal TO expect OF a people
actually feeling the pinch of insult
ficient food that they should view
with equanimity the procession of
ships carrying TO British ports the
DEMONSTRATING grain Of the United
States and Canada, while their gov
eminent would then recede from the
using means Z preventing that food
| from reaching the enemy.
And ever now, with the danger of
serious food shortage exceedingly re-
mote, II Is evident that the question
Of the submarine policy has not beer
| fully and finally settled. 1t Is evil
dent that powerful considerations and
| influences are at work to reopen the
discussion before the American wheat
begins in midsummer to move across
| the Atlantic.
May Not Have Been Threat,
| The last paragraph of the German
governments nota may never In Ger
many have been regarded as a threat
That note did not say that, should the
government OF the United States not
| succeed In securing respect Tor the
las of humanity at the hands of the
British government, the German gov
eminent would then receive from the
concessions 1t had made to the SEN
ftiment of the United States The
note only said that in such case 1.-The
German government would then be
| facing new situation in which Il
I must reserve to itself complete lib
erty of decision" The distinction Of
receding from the concessions and re-
considering the whole position is KEEP
explicitly in mind here.
| Now the German government off,
cially may not be. but the German peo-
pie apparently are. reconsidering the
position. 1t Is with no little hesita-
ton and only as matter Of news Of
/ high Importance which can not be
| ignored without prejudice to the hon
esty and candor so necessary to any
understanding between nations. that
| send the international News Service
! this Dispatch 1t is due TO every
body concerned that the people In
the United States should be Informed
that the submarine question Is fan
| from being closed.
The Retchstag Is now ad jeurned
There will be no troublesome parlia-
ment In session until the end OF Sep
TENDER In the meantime the infiu
ence Of the navy party Is In the as
cendant, the present week opened