The Washington times., 1917-04-11
THINK U-BOATS ARE
ISOLATING ENGLAND
German Newspapers Exultant
In Conviction That Foe
Will Be Starved.

England has again become a real
island, as the result of the activities
of German submarines, says Willy
Pastor, a German publicist and men,
Der of the staff OF the Berliner Tag
liche Rundschau, in an article found
in a copy of that paper recently re-
ceived from London.
Formerly it was not really an is
land, as innumerable floating bridges
connected it with all parts of the
world, with Canada and Central
America, Australia, India, and South
Africa; but now, according to the
German writer, IL has been forced into
It's old insular position.
The German submarines, says Pas
tor, have forged their DEVILS ring
around the island. Old England is un-
easy. She reckons her tonnage, her
armaments, her guns mounted fore
and aft, but on the other side of the
Channel, week by week, two new sub
marines of the newest design appear,
boats with increasing tonnage, in
creasing speed and armament. There
need be no danger, he tells his read
ers. Germany will help herself.
Thinks EngIand's Fall Near.
In the course of a speech in the
Reichstag, brief excerpts of which
were cabIed to this country, DR.. Gus
tav Stresemann, one of the leaders
of the National Liberal Party, thanked
God that Germany now had a foreign
secretary OF flesh and blood in the
person OF DIR. Zimmerman and ex-
pressed extreme optimism as to the
progress Of the submarine campaign.
As quoted by the London Times, DR..
Stresemann said.
Everything that can possibly hap
pen to us in the way OF difficulties
as the result OF the intervention of
another state, and all the possible
economic losses of Germany, do not
weigh against the possibility OF
bringing down England. Our bitter
est enemy, who made the war into
"a world-economic war. is now him.
self feeling the consequences. In this
economic war we are now taking the
offensive, while England is put on
the defensive, and Lloyd-George has
to announce what foods. hitherto re-
garded in England as indispensable,
can no longer be imported.
England is now experiencing,
more acutely and more rapidly, the
difficulties which we experienced.
Herr Zimmerman expressed in a
conversation firm confidence that the
submarine weapon would soon bring
us peace, and bring II this summer.
That Is no mere sentiment OF the mo-
ment. England is much more defense
less against such an offensive block
ade than Germany was against the
economic war. Nothing can go to
England except in ships, and these
ships are under German control. Eng
lands greatness depends upon sea
power, and a blow which brings her
down from the first place in world
shipping strikes her nerve center"
To Destroy NeutraIs.
The Cologne Gazette, one OF the
leading newspapers of the German
empire and frequently the mouth
piece of the German admiralty, re-
Gently printed a long and jubilant
prophecy of the way in which the
German submarines would gradually
destroy neutral trade. The journal
repoices impartially over the dwin-
ding profits of New York, Amster-
dam, Christiania, Copenhagen, and
Barcelona. The only European neu-
trails that it does not mention are
Sweden and Switzerland. The edi-
torial writer describes the three
phases of what he calls the Inevitable
triumph OF Germany. The first phase
is sketched thus, according to the
lTdHSldNlOh pIlHlSo III buo LOuuOh
press:
"The torpedoes OF the German sub
marines are shooting holes in the
great business of the world. The
ships cannot sail the seas because the
risks are too immense and profits dis
appear like shadows. There is a gen
eral collapse of the international war
profit speculators. OF course, the
Indignation of the disappointed prof.
teers. is now directed against us. The
commercial spirit OF the whole world
is mobilized against us, and all its
back-stair intrigues are used to rouse
public opinion against us. That will
not disturb us. Relying on our good
right, we shall go our way, valuinG
this manufacture OF opinion at its
true worth, and later on a sobered
world will ask whether 1t really
thought us such fools as to believe
in it's INDICATION"
"The great business OF the neutrals,
thanks TO the successes of our sub
marine war, is at present at an end.
The gold hunger IN New York and
elsewhere may rage against us in the
newspapers and in notes, but we
know it's value. We know. indeed,
that this gold hunger in Unsuitable,
that il can forge all values and all
opinions, and that 1t Will bring up
flood Of simulated indignation. But
we know that we are stronger. Hith-
erto three powers have helped us to
hold out victoriously-the sword OF
the German soldier, the plowshare OF
the German farmer. and the intellect
OF the German professor. They will
continue to prove themselves stronger
than tho united commercial spirit of
all nrutraIs and all so-called neu-
trails"