The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1917-06-07
FAILURE OF SUBS CAUSING
GERMANS DISSATISFAc-
TON $%
1.-Two or Three Months" Promised
at Beginning of Ruthless Cam
paign is Now Stretched
Into Four.

Into Four.
Copenhagen, June, (via oLndon)
Private advices from Germany tel
of growing dissatisfaction among tn
people at large with the political re
suits of the ruthless submarine cam
paign and the absence of any indica
tons that it has brought the desired
peace near to hand.
During their long campaign for the
unrestricted use of submarines the
advocates of this measure made very
definite promise of immediate results.
1.-TWO or three months" was the
phrase used everywhere in street and
newspaper arguments in regard to
the time it would take to bring Eng
land to her knees ready for peace.
Even though the official propaganda
has since declared the government
bound itself to no particular time to
produce results, the prediction that
they would be obtained in two or
three months has remained in the
minds of the people.
Grumblings are now heard that, al
though four months have passed,
England shows no signs of weaken
ing. but on the contrary seems de-
termined to prosecute the war more
bitterly than ever.
Statements that France has been
"bled white" and will be forced to
retire from the war have been made
so often that they no longer attract
the slightest credence. The entry of
the United States into the war and
the rupture of relations between Ger
many and the bulk of the neutral
world outside OF Europe is now taken
seriously and regarded with gloom.
Questions recently have been asked
The correspondent by Germans here,
not in official positions, who are dis
over the results of the sub
marine campaign up to the present
line, as to what would be the effect
n the United States if the submarine
warfare were now abandoned. The
however, shows no signs
If weakening and is now engaged in
vigorous publicity campaign to
olster up the waning confidence at
ome and quiet the complaints of
eutrals.
1t is a matter of knowledge to the
that at least one men,
er of the German government re- {
lsed to commit himself to any def {
lite time limit for bringing Great t
ritain into a frame of mind to dis d
HISS peace. In the correspondents :
lst informal conversation with DR.. f
Tired Zimmerman, head of the for
ign office, a few hours before the I
ews of the rupture OF relations with
lie United States was received at
erlin, the minister, who was on ten S
er hooks to know what the United II
tates would do, declared impulsive- Ii
:: t.
"lf the United States will only [
eep hands off and let lis alone, two
: three months will be enough "
Then noticing the correspondent a
rick up his ears at this foreign Of
ce use of the stock phrase of the II
lthlessness ADVOCATES. he quickly !
nended his estimate.
Say six months" he said, and tt
zen reading further query in the p
correspondents eyes, said: "
"Well, let us not fix any definite al
me-"
DR.. Zimmerman went on with the W
gulnent that England and the en- tt
nte quickly would be made amen U
lie to the peace idea if the United til
ates would only refrain from Sc
eaking relations or declaring war to
consequence of the proclamation
the unrestricted submarine CAM r
ign.
German naval writers for some
ne have been preparing their read &c
for a possible falling off in the al
onthly figures of tonnage destroyed =
submarines. Many of them fur ~
sh the advance explanation, that >.
is, if it happens, will be due largely 81
the absence of vessels to torpedo. ~
in some articles, to the results of NJ
British methods. No mention of ~
y increase of losses of submarines -