New Britain herald., 1917-10-13


 Marine. has resigned, according to the Frankfurter Zeitung.
 Washington, Oct 1S.-News of the resignation of Vice Admiral von Capelle as german minister of marine was gladly received in Washington, because it was interpreted as another milestone in the failure of the Ger man submarine campaign of unre- stricted warfare on merchantmen
 It has been expected for some time that von Capelle would lose his off, cial head on account of the failure of the submarine navy to make good its boast of ability to starve England and bring her to her knees before the end of the summer. More than seven months have elapsed since Germany threw to the winds her pledges in the Sussex and Lusitania cases to en- gage in the U-boat campaign of ruthlessness, of which von Capelle was an ardent advocate, and which has been conducted under his direc- tion.
 While the withdrawal of won Capelle was undoubtedly hastened by the tense political quarrel with the socialists and others in the Reichstag on account of his official revelation of the German naval mutiny, it is not thought here that this was the underlying cause of his withdrawal, which is regarded as marking the failure of Germany's naval campaign last summer. Not only has the U- boat campaign reached a point where American war risk insurance could be reduced on account of the lesser number of sinkings, and where there is no chance for the starvation of England, but in other directions the German navy has been without ac- complshment during the summer
 The German high seas fleet, since the battle of Jutland, has failed to engage the British navy in battle for supremacy of the seas. What is even more important to Germany, the U- boats, in addition to their failure to shut down supplies to England to the point of where it would mean starva- tion, have also failed to interrupt the steady flow of conveyed Ameri- can soldiers and munitions to France.
 Not An American Lost.
 Not one American soldier has been lost in the great task of affording safe sea transportation to the expedi- tion, and no conveyed American sup ply ship has yet been lost.
 The transportation, of course, is ef- fected with the greatest caution. and the ships are heavily conveyed. But the fact that the American govern ment has been able to send con- siderable number of men to France without loss of a sever blow to the vaunted prestige of the submarine
 There were sOno who waro incline o1 to accept with a grain of salt the news that had come from Berlin regarding won Capelle's announcer of the naval mutiny. Officials were desir- ous of obtaining more definite details as to the mutiny and its extent before passing complete judgment on the edisode. It was recalled that at var ious times in the past the Berlin gov ernment had made such matters pub lie, purposely exaggerating them for the purpose of lulling enemy countries into a sense of fancied security. But when word came tonight of the re- signation of von Capelle opinion swung around to the side of those who have taken the stand that the revelations did not begin to tell all the truth regarding the existence of 2 grave situation among the German sea forces.
 That von Capelle himself probably realized that his administration of the navy was a failure is the cOnstruc- tion which some observers of the sit uation here place upon the boldness of his remarks concerning the mutiny that raised such a storm among the socialists. The charge that members of the Reichstag were implicated in Q revolutionary plot in the navy-which was virtually the equivalent of saying that there were traitors in the Reich stag-may have been made because he was prepared to resign and cared nothing for the consequences of his words. Deltman, Haase, and Vogtherr, accused of complicity in the plot, are credited with having been demanding the conclusion of an early peace on the basis of the program proclaimed by certain Russian socialists.
 DUMMY GUNS FOR YALE.
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