The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-06-19
GERMANS BOAST
OF UBOATs' WORK
Threaten the Atlantic Coast
With Worse Things Yet
to Come
PAPERS TELL OF
panic" CAUSED HERE
And Say That Scenes Which Will Make
s'the Marrow in Wilson S Bones Turn
Cold'' Are Soon to Happen Cities
May Be Shelled.

May Be Shelled.
| WASHINGTON, June 1s.-Secretary
Lansing has received cabled summary
of German press comment on the U-boat
campaign which Germany has initiated
along the American Atlantic coast,
praising the exploits of the German sub
marines and boasting that worse are to
come, intinlating that American coast
country as quaking in its boots for fear
of German air raids The claims of
the German press were SO ridiculous in
their falseness that Secretary Lansing
authorized their publication.
One German paper asserted in its
issue of June that the German sub
marine ACTIVITIES were obstructing the
transportation of American aid to
France at moment when American
reinforcements were the last hope of
France and England.
"Our submarines this paper con-
tinues. care delivering decisive blows
to French hopes by checking the de-
l
plies. No threat of increased war spirit
can prevent us from continuing the sub
marine attacks and Germany may wait
patiently and confidently for future sub
marine activity on the American front
Another German paper said that the
people of the United States were trem-
bling with fear of German air attacks
and the hour was perhaps not far dis.
tant when American ports would be
bombarded by German cannon.
"The sudden appearance of subma
| rines along the Atlantic Coast il
!. says, ''must be presage of impending
{ calamity The American Government
is trying to conceal its concern.
The New York newspapers, according
to some German press comment, an
: nounced that the submarine attack wa;
a expected, although, i'm truth it caused
0 huge panic One German paper car
{ ried this comment: This is only tn,
beginning. The real work of the sub
marines begins when the Atlantic i
= filed with ships assembled by Amer
Q lea. Germany will set scenes whiel
! will Ike the marrow in Wilson's bone
Z turn cold -
Other German Eapers are assertin,
that the American fleet was powerles
against the submarine attack.
In strong contrast with the boastfu
tone of the German press neutral or
% gan. the National Zeitung of Basic
Switzerland. was quoted in the summa-
sent to the State Department as assert
L ing that Germany would pay big prize
II for this submarine venture.
Y ''The submarine campaign on til
:, American coast, says the Nations
ar Zcitung twill, like all other simila
m undertakings, end with disappointmen
Is on the part of the originators. Amer
" lean hatred will be increased, and th
Y war against Germany will now becom
a matter of personal Importance fe
r. every American. 1t is very doubt,
to if the attack will really serve Germa
lg military interests, and not result onl
s. in a momentary advantage for whic
es too high price must be later pai
T.. This is naturally beyond the compr
IN hension of Germany's military leadei
and people. Immediate results viii
an innumerable American volunteers.
r wave of hySterieal fanaticism. an il
re creased thirst for revenge will swes
+. America and easily counterbalance Il
TT advantage of the attack for Germany.