Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1917-03-01
BIG SHARK HUNT
OF THE BRITISH
SENDS U-BOATS
TO THE BOTTOM
Known That England Is
Getting the German Sub
marines in Large Num-
bers, Although Operations
Are Kept Secret.

London, March England has sunk
and captured a vastly greater num-
Der of German submarines since the
German submarine war went into eff
feet Feb. /. than at any time proceed
ing that decree.
1t is known that more than one sub
marine supply station has been dis
covered and put out of business by
British naval vessels.
Evidence is plentiful that the Brit
ish navy. engaged in the most colossal
shark hunt ever known to the high
seas, is making a successful hunt of
it.
In other words, England is getting
the German submarines. She is set
ting them-and she is getting them;
that is to say, she is capturing them
and she is sinking them.
GERMANY LEARNING 1T.
How she is doing it, where and how
many she has got thus far the censor
does not permit one to tell--but Eng
land knows it, and it is safe to be-
| leve that Germany is beginning to
know it, If in no other way. Ger
many is learning it through the great
number of the undersea crews that fail
to return.
Leave it to Jellicoe," the British
said the day of Germany's announce
ment of unrestricted submarine war
fare Their confidence in the gray
and grizzled sea mastiff through whom
Britannia is ruling the waves" at this
particular period, appears to have been
justified.
What proportion of the number OF
ly,- H.
navy may be catalogued as captures
and what proportion as sinkings can
not be given.
The personal disposition Of nava. Of
ficers Just now is sink rather than to
capture, but the size of the captive
hauls slowed away in one or two
British harbors makes it difficult to
believe that more than their number
has actually been sent to the bot
tom
More than one reason is given for
the unquestioned success of the war
of determination against the sub
marines.
One is that the new "unterseebotes'
are less efficient of themselves, by
reason of hasty construction to meet
the new program and that their crews
: are less tllltltnl pGCdusc VI MAST
training for the purpose.
Whereas man naval officers an
ticipated meeting something new anC
more terrible in the way of under.
water fighting when Berlin announced
the new policy of ruthlessness, there i:
reason to believe they nave found thu
new boats easier to combat than were
their predecessors.
MINE FIELD EXTENDED.
Another reason, which has a goot
deal to substantiatef its authenticity, il
= that the new and frankly announces
extension of the British mine field ha
thrown Il barrier across the ports o
- departure of the submarines that ha
successfully hemmed in a big portion
of those the German admiralty hope
to send forth. At the same time thi
: barrier has prevented the return {
- home ports of many submarines tina
> had been sent out before the ruthless
. ness was announced.
=. Headed home for a fresh supply O
= petrol, it is declared, many a Germa
- submarine. has found it impossible t
get through the mine Fields. som
= have been sunk and some have slippe
10 away to hide.
% SUPPLY STATIONS FOUND.
At more than one supply static
. discovered and put out of business b
- British naval vessels, German sub
" marines have turned up to find a
!. supplies vanished. sometimes to b
captured or sunk themselves by wait
ing British craft
For reasons of the admiralty's owl
facts of British success against I'll
:, submarines are being kept within I'll
~ admiralty.
~ The same course was followed,
" will be remembered, in the first daH
=, of the first big submarine menac
), when as now, the admiralty did M
a., allow the details of it's success to be-
:, come known until long afterward, COZ
.. filming such publicity as was permit
:, ted to general statements of the chal
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