The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1917-02-09
GERMANY THROWS
| DOWN GAUNTLET
.NNoUNCES THAT SUBMARINE
Warfare WILL BE RESUMED
AGAINST ENEMY SHIPPING.
Iete Assumed to Mean Sinking With
Out Warning of Ships in Effort TO
Prevent Food Shipments
to England.

Washington. 1t has been learned
1 thai Germany has declared unrestrict-
] ed submarine warfare.
starvation blockade Of England,
the like of which the world has never
seen, was announced to the world on
Wednesday, in notes delivered to Am
exican Ambassador Gerard in Berlin
/ and to the state department here by
1 Count Won Bernstorff.
thus begins the long-feared cam
I pafgn of ruthlessness, conceived by
! Won Hindenburg, it is said here, on
= Magnitude never even contemplated
aby Won Tirpitz.
! Again the United States faces sew
I erance Of diplomatic relations with
! lesmany, with all it's eventual posi-
! bIIities. President Wilson's repeated
{ innings of world aire" and Sec
xetary Lansing's verge of war" state
| ments are being recalled in the cap
atat with feelings of apprehension and
ntsgiving
Germany's action is the super-crisis
ok ali those that have stirred the Am
erican continent in two and half
years of world war.
Talk of peace in Europe and means
OF preserving the peace of the world
has gone glimmering President Viii
son, incredulous at first, when the un-
official text of Germany's warning
was brought to him, at once called
for the official document, which had
d Just been presented to Secretary Ian
sing by the German ambassador. Mr..
lansing absolutely refused to COM
], mont. President Wilson began imme-
diately a careful study of the docu-
!. mend
The president has the task of decid-
!. ing what shall be the course of the
b United States. Three immediate steps
I appear among the possibilities. The
Imited States might solemnly warn
Gefmany against a violation of her
pledges; it might be decided that the
n German warning is sufficient notice
J. Of an intention to disregard those
" pledges and a sufficient warrant for
breaking off diplomatic relations; II
IN might be decided to await the results
Of the blockade and determine the
/ ycourse of the United States as the act
ual operations develop
On almost every side Germanys
:, drastic action is interpreted as an
open confession of the effectiveness
:. OF the British food blockade. 1t is re,
garded as a determination to strike
:. back in kind.
German officials in the United
= States estimate the food supply on
the British isles will last a month.
admittedly, the plan is to carry star
vation to the doors of England with
swift, staggering strokes, as a fulfill
~ ment Of Germany's announced deter
mination to use every weapon and
agency at her command to end the war
quickly. She counts on the opera
ry tons Of an unheard-of number Of sub
marines to deliver blows to bring
Of England to her knees within sixty
ny days. One German official here pre-
=, dicted the war would be over in a
y : month.
Il, Conveyed to the world as her an
: swer to the refusal of the entente al
: lies to talk peace, Ger1 lany's latest
warning says:
!, From February l. 1917, within
:, barred zones around Great Britain,
Franco, Italy and in the eastern Med
:. iterranean all sea traffic forth
! with will be opposed"
- Il virtually is renewal and an ex-
tension of the celebrated submarine
blockade of the British isles proclaim
a ed on February 4, 1915, and which be
came effective February IS, 1915. I'm
sorder ID, ships were sunk without warn
ng, until Germany abandoned the
practice and gave assurances. in the
Sussex case. to abide by international
laws The Lusitania, Falaba and
cores Of other ships were sunk IN
: Ter The decree.
I, American citizens and American
ships are warned from entering the
- var bones, although certain precau-
- ,ionary measures are suggested for
distinguishing American steamers not
arriving cOntraband according to the
herman list