New Britain herald., 1917-05-02
SUBMARINES SINK 100000
 TONS IN WEEK, LANE SAYS
Secretary of Interior Tells Governors of Alarming Success of U-Boat Cam
 paign to Starve Out Allies.

Washington, May 2.-Secretary ference here today with the Council of National Defense on the part state governments will take in the war that the federal government had heard
 100000 tons of shipping had been sunk in the last week by German sub- marines.
 The destruction, Secretary Lane said, was not only threatening the existence of England and France but was alarming the United States. Study of inventions to combat the sub- marine menace II bein9 deligently pursued in tho ifitettor department, hs said. rhS dSiS ssny Of which were chairmen or members of state councils Of defense, were to be received during the day by President Wilson, and to be addressed by Sec retaries Baker, Wilson and the as sistant secretary of agriculture.
 Many questions came up for discus sion. including national prohibition during the war, the conservation of food and industrial resources. the es- tablishment of larger crop production. the labor supply, particularly for farm work and industrial conditions affect ing the output of munitions and other. war supplies.
 The United States must build ships as rapidly as possible, he told the delegates.
 If we don't neht the war on the other side,' he added, i've shall have to fight it on this side of the Atlanttc.''
 Secretary Lane declared he be- lieved the war would last several years and that every resource of the country must be brought into play to bring 1t to 8 successful conclusion. Many persons thought" said Secre- tary Lane" that all we had to do was to issue bonds and that Germany would bow her head in submission. Nothing could be further from the truth. We do not know whom this war will end. It may not be a one year war. Personally believe it will last several years. Herbert c. Hoover has informed this government that Germany has food enough to last two years, perhaps longer.
 Germany has put up the greatest fight of history and she has the ad- vantage of now fighting defensive Don't go back home and in spire your people with the thought that immediate action can bring this war to an immediate end. Your peo- pie must look to this years crop and next years crop and the next after that.
 We can't afford to fail in this war Every man in this country is involved in this work and every man In the country is q soldier. The French hope to break down the morale of the 1 neYpp fe f<nl see to it that our own morale rises
 Besides Secretary Lane. the state heard Secretaries l Baker and Daniels, Adjutant General Mccain and Judge Advocate General Crowder of the army. Later they | were received by President Wilson.
 The three secretaries declared the | one need of America and the Allies 1 now Is ships.
 ''This is warsof principles and France and Italy are lighting for the 1 principles invented" said Secretary Lane. The United States now is a l mother country and our. children are fighting for principles laid down in the I of independence. It was l that declaration of independence that 1 made democracy possible,
 Always, Secretary Lane said, there | were disaffection with those who are | directing a war and he urged his | hearers to base their conclusion on facts and not on rumor.
 London, May 2.-In the house of | commons today Sir Edward Carson, first lord of the admiralty, said there l
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