The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1918-02-16
U BOAT CAMPAIGN
PROBABLE in april
NAVAL AUTHORITIES THINK
.sUPER-SUB" WILL BE USED
IN SPRING.
TEUTONs AND RUSSIANS
GERMANS PLAN MOVES INTO
BALKANS - PETROGRAD
MAY BE OBJECTIVE.

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maximum submarine effort is ex-
pected in the period between April
and June, according to an opinion ex-
pressed by high naval authority.
Germany probably then will use her
much heralded supersubmarines. AL
though the U-boats of what is known
as the Deutschland class already have
been active, it is believed Germany's
biggest undersea craft are not at
work and there is reason to expect
them to take part in the spring of
fensive.
Menace to End by August.
Commenting on Lord Jellicoe's
statement that by next August the
submarine menace will be ended, it
was declared I'VE don't expect to
have sunk every German submarine,
but we do expect to have made big
hole in her total number by them
Reports which have emanated
from neutral countries that Germany
will combine a naval drive with her
military onslaught in the near future
is shared in some quarters here.
Among navy men il is hoped for.
I'VE are ready for 1t whenever it
comes, and the sooner ii comes the
better we will like it," was the state
ment Of one officer.
Germany Plans Russian Attack.
Germany has resolved to renew
military activities against northern
Russia. This decision is said to have
been reached at conference at inn
perial headquarters, special dis
patches from Holland say.
The Daily News correspondent in
Rotterdam telegraphs:
The Germans are far from agree
ing with Trotsky that war with
Great Russia does not exist. In fact
they intend renewing military activ'
tiles.
Peace Declared at End.
MY informant, who is in touch
with the German situation, expressed
il thus: The Germans take the po'
sition that Trotsky's declaration does
not end the war, but that it auto
matically brought about the end oi
the armistice. They now consider
they have quite a free hand and NEAR
to use the opportunity.
"Trotsky has gone back to Petro
grad to tell the Russian people h'
has cleverly avoided accepting Ger
man terms and that there is nov
peace, but German troops will follow
him to Petrograd in order to shov
that they regard his declaration Al
giving them freedom Of action ant
that they intend to use that freedom
in renewing the war
May Support Ukranians.
This does not necessarily impl,
that German troops will immediatel.
try to reach Petrograd. Military ac
ton against northern Russia will
more probably take the form at frs
of supporting Ukrania by force o
arms. The Germans are carrying Of
an active propaganda in Ukrania wit
the purpose of suggesting to the rad
that the danger threatening the ney
state comes from the bolsheviki an
is equivalent to interference fron
outside. that is to say, from the for
mer Russian empire.
I'm effect, il is all part Of Ger
many's great scheme for breaking u
the former Russian empire, with tn
view to extending its own influenc
and power over the new states o
whom 1t Is posing as protector.
May Move on Balkans.
That Germany plans major oi
fensive against the Balkans and Ital
is a growing view in entente militar
headquarters today. The net resul
of the prolonged troop movements o
the west front was said by reliabl
sources to be merely the replacemen
of tired, short divisions by full. fres
divisions, with an appreciable numel
ical strengthening at one point onl!
Germany's constant advertising
her plans for big west front offer
sive has the effect OF making the A
lies keep to the defensive and PR
vents the Allies from starting an o.
fensive. The Balkan-Italian drive
also based on the belief that the Gel
mans plan to smash through Switzel