Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-04-06

and see for yourself.-Adv.
| months the man who torpedoed the
! Lusitania was made chief of the staff
| of educators. 1t was a new task for
| German kultur.
! GERMAN SUBMARINE NATURE.
For the German people the lessons
of the Lusitania have been exactly OPP
posite those normal people would learn.
| The horror Of non combatants going
down on a passenger liner, sunk with
| out warning, was nothing to be com
pared to the heroism of aiming the
torpedo and running away. Sixty Eight
million Germans think their subma-
rine officers and crews are the great
est of the great.
When the Berlin foreign office an
nounCed, after the sinking of the Sus-
sex, that the ruthless torpedoing of
ships would be stopped the German
statesmen meant this method would be
discontinued until there were suffi-
Gent submarines to defy the United
States. At once the German navy,
which has always been anti-American,
began building sub-iarines night and
day. Every one in the government
knew the time would come when Ger
many would have TO break its Sus-
sex pledge.
The German navy early realized the
need for trained men, so it recalled,
temporarily, for educational work the
man who sank the Lusitania.
MAN WHO SANK LUSITANIA.
But, who sank the Lusitania?" you
ask.
THE torpedo which sank the Lusi-
tania and killed over 100 Americans
and hundreds of other non combatants
was fired by Oberleutnant EUR See
(First Naval Lieutenant) Otto Stein
brink, commander of one of the larg-
est German submarines"
WAS he punished?" you ask.
Yes; Kaiser Wilhelm decorated him
with the highest military order, the
Pour lie Merite!"
where is Steinbrink now ?"
"On December S, 1916 the German
admiralty announced that he had just
returned from a special trip having
torpedoed and mined % ships on one
voyage"
What had he been doing?"
For several months last summer he
S'ShiASH OIllStiS anu crews III JnlS
branch of warfare, which gained him
international notoriety."
1t is said that Steinbrink has trained
more naval men than any other sub
marine commander. If this be true. is
there any wonder that Germany should
be prepared tc conduct a ruthless sub
marine warfare throughout the world :?
Is it surprising that American ships
should be sunk, American citizens
murdered and the United States gov
eminent defied when the German navy
has been Employing the man who MUIR
dered the passengers of the Lusitania
as the chief instructor of submarine
murderers?
BUILDING U-BOATS WHOLESALE,
The Krupp interests have PLAYED
leading role in the war, not only by
manufacturing billions of shells and
cannon, and by financing propaganda
in the United States, but by building
submarines. At the Krupp wharves at
Kiel some of the best undersea Graf
are launched. Other shipyards at Bre-
men, Hamburg and Danzig have been
modified for this work, too Just a
few weeks before diplomatic relations
were broken u group of American doc
tors, who wcrC investigating prison
camp conditions. went TO DanZie. Here
they learned that the IL wharvcs there
were building between As and so sub
marines annually. These were the
smaller type for use in the English
Channel At Hamburg the Hamburg
American Line wharves were modified
FOR submarine construction also At
the time diplomatic relations were sew
cred observers in Germany estimated
that go submarines were being
launched annually and that prepara-
tons were being made to greatly in
crease this number.
Submarine warfare is q very exact
and difficult science. Besides the
skilled captain, competent first Of
Ulcers, wireless operators and artillery
men, engineers are needed. Each man,
too, must be ''seadog." Some of the
smaller submarines toss like tubs when
they reach the ocean and only tough
ened seamen can stand the wear and
tear Hence the weeks and months
which are necessary to put the men
In order before they leave home for
their first excursion in sea murder.
But Germany has learned a great
deal during two years of hit-and- miss
submarine campaigns. When Won Tir-
pitt began, in February. 1915, he or
dered MS men to work off the coasts of
England. Then so many submarines
were lost 1t became a dangerous and
expensive military operation. The al
lies began to use great steel nets, both
as traps and as protection to warships.
The German navy learned this within
a very short time, and the military
engineers were ordered to perfect a