The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-05-03

London, May 3.-America is getting
| the full and complete facts of every
news feature of the British end of
the war developments, except the act
uaI figures of submarine losses-and
may expect to receive them very SOON
The submarine menace is the strongest
card Germany has played, but it will
never win the war.
| The foregoing is on authority of the
man whose prophesies and statements
on the war have come to carry more
weight than those of any other figure
| in the allied countrieS-Lord North
cliffe.
| Northcliffe is probably the squarest
| facer of facts in England. He never
| lodges Today the United Press put
| squarely up to him the proposition of
! the gathering doubt and distrust in
| America resulting from belief that
| British officiaidom has not been frank
with America in its statements of sub
marine losses-and possibly has not
told the full truth regarding the allies
successes on the west front.
! Will Give Out Real Figures.
I'm regard to the loss of tonnage
| by submarines" said Lord Northcliffe,
| there is no doubt that the figures
| are serious. The government does not
prevent our newspapers from saying
| so, nor prevent American correspond
ents from saying so. The government
will I believe, very soon publish the
full facts and figures, as soon as they
can arrange the matter with our
French and Italian allies.
! Il do not hesitate to say in my
newspapers that the submarine men
ace is the greatest difficulty we have
| had so far, but to pretend that the war
can be won by the submarine is pre-
posterous.
i Certainly there can be no COM
plaint of lack of frankness IT of over
censorship in the reports of the United
Press and the Associated Press corre-
spondents at the British front. In the
early part of the war, L was one OF
! the censorship's severest critics, but L
am convinced that the present dallJ
reports of the British advance as pub
Iished here and in the United States
are the frankest statement made by
any of the belligerents.
Germans Suppress Arras Defeat.
1.-The very fact that the Germans are
concealing their huge losses IN men
and our methodical capture of their
underground forts in the battles
around Arras should convince Amer
leans that our successes have been so
! great as to cause them to hide their
| colossal losses in dead, wounded, pr1s-
oners, guns and other booty.
when they are winning, the Ger
| mans are frankneSs itself. Today they
are hiding even such facts as the
capture of Bagdad, which they have
not even vet allowed to be published
by the Turks. Their reports of our
series of Bagdad and Mesopotamian
victories, which have put the proposed
Berlin-Bag dad proposition out of ac-
ton, are merely satires on the truth.
THE whole situation of the war is
that in 1914 and 1915 the Prussians,
owing to their many years of prepa-
ration, were successful in certain
areas, tho they lost all their colonies
and had their ships driven from the
seas. Last year was the year OF final
preparation by the allies. but during
1916 the fight resembled that point
in a tug of war when neither side
seems able to pull the other over the
line. Today Turkey is on its last legs
Austria and Hungary are crying out
for peace and Prussia and Bavaria
are discontinued.
Always Predicted Long War
Thru the United Press l have re-
/ peatedly pointed out at various pc
RODS of the war that in my judgment
the struggle will be a long one. l have
not altered my judgment. A tyranny
that has taken so many years to
gather strength and has fortified it
self by every possible mixture of brute
force and science is not easily broken.
II was talking today with an Ameri-
can citizen who left Austria with your
ambassadorial train three weeks ago.
He tells me that the Prussians and
Bavarians long ago discounted the en-
trance of the United States into the
of the speed with which you will be
able to make your preparations. But
on the other hand the Austrians and
Hungarians greatly regretted having
come to the parting of the ways with
America and their newspapers were
permitted to say so.
Work to Settle Ireland Crux.
You ask about Ireland and 1 ap-
lpreciate the stimulus that would be