The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-02-23
Submarine Warfare
Serious RfobIena'
For Allies 10 Meet
Sir Edward Carson, New First
Lord of the Admiralty, Making
Maiden Speech As Cabinet
Member, Assures Commons
That British Naval Methods
Win Win
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LONDON, February 2e-sir Edward
Carson, first lord Of the admiralty,
made his debut as member of the
Lloyd George cabinet in the house Of
commons yesterday, explaining to the
members the effect to date of the Ger.
man policy of unrestricted submarine
warfare and sketching briefly the ad'
miralty methods Of reprisal That the
Champaign has become a serious one for
the Entente the first lord did not deny,
but he stated that the nayies Of the
Entente had taken steps that would by
degrees mitigate the work of the Ger
man submarines and eventually coun-
teract 1t.
Between February and Is, Sir Ed
ward stated, the losses inflicted upon
the shipping of the Entente and Of
neutral nations in the prescribed zones
amounted TO 100000 tons sunk, in com.
parison with 223,000 tons sunk in the
corresponding period in December last
and 10000 tons lost during the first
eighteen days Of January. %r. Z
During the period reviewed, from
February to Is, the admiralty has
records of forty encounters between
British warShips and German subma.
rines, in the course Of which several of
the underwater fighters were captured
and a number of others sunk The par
ticulars, as to methods and exact num-
bers, he did not care to make public at
this time, he said. {l;i
While this statement was being
made for the admiralty, the German
minister of the navy was addressing
the reichstag ON the same subject, but
putting an entirely different face ON
the situation. He asserted that the
result of the campaign of the submA.
rines so far had surpassed all expeeta.
tions, and that the German raiders I'M
derseas were producing a feeling Of
panicky alarm in Great Britain.
He stated also that he had reason, to
believe that not one single submarine
had been lost since the new policy was
put into effect. sIt 4 ar,.ta. s.;5,ss
According to Lloyds, two British
ships were lost the war zone yester-
day, the sailing ship Centurion, 1904
tons, bound from Pensacola for Lon
don, and the British steamer Brigitta,
1850, from Lourenco Marquee for
London. 9s
A Berlin despatch recounts the sink.
ing Of p number of ships, without Civ.
ing specific dates, The despatch sent
out by the Overceas News Agency is;
sEs Many hostile vessels, including an
Italian transport crowded with troops,
have been sunk in the barred zone q
from which Germany has warned ship
ping on penalty Of immediate attack,
without warning, by submarines. :.
so 1t is stated that in the war zone Of
the Mediterranean large number Of
vessels have been sunk in a few days.
Among those sent to the bottom were
two armed vessels carrying important
eargoes for Salonika, the Italian steam.
er Oeeana and the French steamer
Mont yentaux. The sailing ship Aph-
rodite has also been sunk 81
The official gazette yesterday con
tanned an !Horder in council announ-
cling still further tightening Of the
allied blockade of Germany, in re-
Spouse to the German submarine pol.
icy, while it was also. officially an.
nchnced that the port of Plymouth is
closed to oil except naval use. \