Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1917-05-09
GERMAN TOLL ON SHIPPING
AlarIningly Heavy-8ritish Report
Brings Alarm to America.

lowing condensed statement:
ARRIVALS Of all nationalities over
100 tons. 2,716; sailings, $3.50.
British merchantmen sunk by sub
marines or mines, over 1900 tons,
including three not previously record
ed, 3S; under 1000 tons, including
one not previously recorded, 13.
British vessels unsuccessfully at
tackled, including two not previously
recorded "a.
British fishing vessels sunk, in
Guiding two not previously recorded.
eight"
Last weeks statement showed that
40 vessels of over 1900 tons each
were sent to the bottom by mines or
submarines.
u. s. Must Build Ships.
Washington, May 2.-Secretary
Lane told the Governors comforting
here to-day with the Council Of Ma
tional 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 Ger
man submarines.
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
submarine menace is being diligently
pursued in the Interior Department,
he said.
The United States must build ships
as rapidly as possible, he told the
delegates.
''If we don't fight the war on the
other side" he said. 1--WE shall have
to fight it on this side of the Allan
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Maybe Several Years War.
Secretary Lane declared he believ-
ed the war would last several years,
and that every resource of the coun-
try must be brought into place to
bring it to a successful conclusion.
Many persons thought" said Sec
retary Lane, "that all we had to do
was to issue bonds, and that Germany
would bow her head In submission.
Nothing could be farther from the
truth. We do not know when this war
will end. 1t may not be a one-year
war. Personally believe it will last
several years. Herbert G. Hoover
has Informed this government that
Germany has food enough to last two
years, perhaps longer.
Germany Oh Defensive.
Germany has put up the greatest
fight of history, and she has the ad-
vantage Of now fighting a defensive
warfare. 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
people must look to this years crop
and the next after that.
I'VE can't afford to fail in this war.
Every man in this country Is involv-
ed in this work and every man in this
country is a soldier. The French
hope to break down the morale of the
German armies. Our concern is to
see to 1t that our own morale rises.
Besides Secretary Lane the State
representatives heard Secretaries Ba-
ker and Daniels, Adjt. Gen. McClain
and Judge Advocate-Gen. Crowder, of
the army. Later they were received
by President Wilson.
The three secretaries declared the
one need of America and the allies
now is ships.
Later at the State Department Sec
retary Lansing, in response to inqui-
ries, said:
ut may he as we'll recognized that
the submarine situation Is very seri-
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Il Wilson's Address.
II have no homily to deliver to
YOU" said President Wilson, "be-
cause know you are as intensely in
terested as ! am in drawing all our
efforts and energies together in
common action. My function has
not OF recent days been to give ad-
vice, but to get things co-or,linated
so that there will not be any, or at
any rate, too much, lost motion, and
in order that things should not be
done twice by different bodies or done
in conflict.
IL is for that reason that | partic-