Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-02-15

HALL SUBMARINE FRIGHTFULNEss RULE THE wORLDi
The submarine boat occupies the center of the
omc and military and naval point of view It has become
Gemanys only hope Of starving the British Isles and win
p os tt @ &C the e. Of the whole wGd
Under these circumstances it is natural that submarine
ona law and the usages of civilized nations war and fl
nanciers and of government well as naval
world the overshadowrg issue this time and it is being
studied from every possible viewpoint
test that long continued the designers proectes
on the one hand and the makers of armor and other means Of
makers believed they had the battle and the steeclad
With the advent of high explosives remained simply to
app is the principle which Fulton over century ago had
to enable boat get enough to intended victim
blow hole in an intended victim sufficient to sink it. The
ton purposes without the torpedo as project We thus
have the two principles high explosives and undesea
sea Warfare yet devised is '"e most 'e'''' ''N
Inv Sl another principle is involved in the present prob
and other neutras to Germany methods This is
from e aas @ of mot SV s Se
sea but also on land
Before the advent of the present frghulness,
for example, it customary to notify city Of the in
tention of the to attack in order that and
the place after receiving such warning they could
ably complain of injuries received during siege In like
and other craft of begeren nations held to be entitled
to existence although they might be seized and coscated
The lives Of all noncombaans at also conserved by
the rules OF international law.
In order to make either aerial raids submarine warfare
effective against occanocked Britain became for
Germany to contravene the long established principle that
a nd G d pc mn iron hc and
should not be killed The Zeppelin could not do its work with
warning upon the inhabitants Of any town attacked ndscrm
natey The submarine could not take prizes at accord
If tried searching or stopped to inquire if women and child
rem were on board ran the risk itself of being sunk and so
successfully large sink all craft
This meant warfare Of frghtfuness on both land and
of surface Of the by great navy Such
methods Of warfare could not be used without marked mod
caton of international rules and precedents regards
Englands assertion of its right adapt naval usages in
charging of the list of conraband and the interruption of
trail trade with other neutral countries Germany
cedent for similar modification disregard of the rights of
neutras on its part turn but such precedent did not war
ons Of the
While we have ground of complaint against both Britain
and Germany for contravenng international law and ser
ousy encroachng rights must be careful to bear in
property and personal rights and Germanys assertion of it's
right to take human life if its orders to stop trading with
There is far larger question involved in the present
situation than even our rights American citizens to insist
That question s shall warfare Of fghfuness made pos
sbe by the submarine dominate the word More specifically
and military will this method of applying the old prn-
cpe of attack upon the enemys line of communications be
permanently successful?
That question is susceptible of by mechanical
MEANS of answer of diplomatic and political solution
The British have answered similar question to
rghtness in connection with aerial warfare by devising
means of meeting the Zeppelin both with artillery designed
for this special purpose and with aeropanes and other air.
craft Aerial warfare is largely confined to efforts to
destroy aircraft engaged in directing gun
in observing field The Zeppelin agency of
wholesale flghtfunenss for an enemy has already become
negligible.
will the submarine be similarly "scrapped" either by
val agencies or necessities or both
We trying the latter with Germany The allies
perorce rely wholly naval of meeting the sub
marine peril
The British have already made marked progress in
capturing submarines in large steel You read
in preceding issue the announcement of naval expert
that light guns dschargng proectles Of four s, pounds
in the hands gunners by far the effective
weapon against the submarine Deck guns thus
leading nets bombs and other devices against under
sea boats.
The chief exception to this statement is in the of
craft attacked without warning which brings back to
reliance upon the rules of civilized warfare Tor which the