Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-07-12

UBMAR1NE WARFARE AND OUR PART IN ITS ENDING
Submarine warfare has materially changed the lines of
development in the world conflict helping to
duct but will not determine the That is
era proposition that safely be laid down following
M %tso1 Ss Of eesd IN
defy the Kasers submarines in the OF men,
event Of approaching danger Of starvation through the SUBJ
marines interruption Of commerce.
The part taken by the submarine in this war 49, how
and its ruthless American life would
the bombardment Of Teutonc ports and focstions With
the submarine British supremacy the would have
5 If ss s after Il ns wa a
The chief problem confronting the United States and the
legitimate the Submarine The % to
accomplish in warfare much that would have been impossible
rules Of civilized warfare The sinking Of merchant ships
without warning and without giving women and children
chance to escape wholly contrary to the OF ma
Earlier tss soSiss the submarine factor
Hogas with total loss Of i4ss i!ss In the battle Of the
German cruisers Leipzig scharnhors Gneisenau and Nuesn
to gred AND the thing true practically the
The submarine has done it's most deadly work
diaboc nature the author of ruthless warfare
The submarine as instrument of commercial embargo
war zone decree went into effect During the first four months
Of this embargo the submarine blockade did not materially
period navy lost about forty submarines mostly
with their number Of the undersea craft were sunk
by ang but most Of them captured in steel nets set
At the United States and other neurals protested
against the submarine blockade merely interfering with
With the sinking Of the Lusitania May 1915
and the Of on than
began to take that ruthless character which eventually
to by the
two years Of peace on our part following that dastary act
venged but for the resumption ruthless warfare
by the Kaiser February 1917 and then we did not
The part be taken by the United States in naval
fare forecast within week after the resumption of
distinguished British naval authority February he said
chief interest lies the role the United States play
He showed how light cruisers and desroyer could undertake
important patrol work then maintained by ships of the
tente leaving the latter free to undertake work
undertake conveys and conduct supplies and acting with the
Years can state most
that the efficiency and spirit Of the officers and men of the
The American navy has already begun the work of
yoy thus and in case Of need it can also fulfil
the other prediction Of Admiral Bridge to conveying of
We to overlook the fact that the difficulty of meet
ing the submarine peril has increased easuraby during
the year. The amng merchant ships forced the Ger
to devise of avoiding AS result the
it discharges torpedo The first warning the victims look
out has the wake Of the internal thing indicated by bubbles
and slight commotion
The submarines which are enlarged to go far from their
bases also aided by Inventions According to
advces received in Washington there has been remarkable
development in telephone and listening devices which make
possible to hear and locate distance of five miles the d.
reton and type of vessel the of judging being
the frequency of the propeller revolutions.
Another device consists of four small pumps regulated by
electricity enable the hydrostat indicate the depth
of submeron and to enable the submarine to remain motion
less the Before this device installed the SUBJ
marine would either sink rise when the propeller stop
ped Chasers could hear the rob Of the submarine boats
oness when they hear chaser and easily capture
destruction st another the telescopes peri
slant wake betrayng the movement Of the vessel the
ly shoots it's periscope and quickly wthdraws it.
Nor have American inventors been idle One of the most
effective weapons against the submarine is the navy grenade
American Device used in the recent bout with German
submarines by the American forces crossing to France
The marine grenade is type of mine timed to explode at
certain distance under water 1t does not explode by contact
like ordinary mine, which is kept at certain depth by
water pressure but expodes when it reaches certain depth
and pressure does not remain to navigation