Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-08
].RAIDS OFF U. s.
DF LITTLE IMPORT
s00ked OH as Feint, With
No Real Military
Value
WAR Is NOW AMERICAS
Whole Problem Hangs on Get.
ting Reserves to Battle
rss Line in Time
VAR IS NOW AMERICAS
~ BY CHARLES H. CRASTY -
&eecial Cable to Erening Public Ledge

3 - copyri1ht, 1918, bD NcW York Times CO.
\ Er-T Paris. June 6.
y opinion here does not take the
.spfesence of German submarines In
american waters as serious. II is
f4ooked upon as feint to keep as many
4 american destroyers az possible on the
sswrong side of the, Atlantic What the
5Bubmarines can do there as compared
with here is negligible. Sustained ef-
pySft at such distance from their base
t.is Impossible. Moreover shipping is not
ac6ncentrated off the American coast as
- u Is of the Irish coast.
From every expert viewpoint the sub
marines Transatlantic activities Is
merely a spectacular incident. with no
, military value or significance unless the
alarm created should influence Wash
17teton to keep on that side some Of the
new destroyers just being completed and
20 greatly needed for tho full organize
tion Of our convoy system which pro-
Sects the transports bringing soldiers as
aWeA as supplies.
Those tricky Germans are trying to
1thrbw a scare into little old New York
raid a young officer well. It went
hurt to have the war brought to New
Xork's doors. Nobody can have inagi-
nation enough to know what 1t is with
~ SSS''s a. aA'tNS Va 49,
wait on United states to Aid Hussi.
~ Whatever America does Is accepted
~ Europe without a murrnur. but It Is
everywhere hoped that practical meas
~afes won't be long delayed for sending
IAN Allied expedition to Siberia to help
Russia against German infiltration.
England and France love Russia all
right. too. but they have good, loyal
ally In the boat with them. and they love
him even little better than the one
I that jumped out.
..sts- The feeling toward Japan n warm
4 here. and there Is general reluctance to
create any unnecessary troubles for her
sfln handling a problem where here suscep-
~ abilities and internal political and in
dustrial conditions are deeply concerned
Helping Russia and ceinenting ties with
Japan in the same process is much
wished for here
It is possible, even probable. that the
sthrust to Paris has been stopped. but
(: the necessary force could not be moved
I, from other parts of the Allied line with
cut leaving them correspondingly thin
The Germans are in a position to find
1 such weak spots and launch prompt at
tacks from the diameter of the circle
Il which we travel around the circumfer-
Il ance. From the beginning, as these dis
q pAxches have pefnted out, the whole
Il problem returns to reserves. II we can
'3f8ttx txsk1uTertcfffyi In humbeEs here before
i ~ 3Srmaas soompti q .decisiortit means
wl2pptng them. and only that way can
We vfh. Barring miracle. o.
Il n other words. this great world war.
l hp6 suddenly hecotne peculiarly, Amer
ie.;AM might have beens" about the
| l3St and going TO bes'' about the
/ fhs3ire are scrapped, American soldiers
h 4re pow in the line fighting efficiently
ysM units hAyerecenfly arrived and are
VI k{plring furiously in France. Those on
kf the sea and those embarking within a
~ few weeks, or at most, months, con-
stitute the hope-perhaps the sole hope
9 N--of western Europe against German
ahperiority and consequent victory in
4 this battle. This Is not at all saying
i victory in this war, but potential re-
60urces will still remain for develop
nent and organization which. on a new
Diane Of intelligence and skill, will
| ultimately drive the Germans back
I ACROSS the Rhine. Germany can never
1 prtvail, but the American cost will be
hsavy,