New Britain herald., 1919-01-04
.of them tlle point in reference L

said: "rhey Ghe Allied Governmentsl
must point out, however, that Clause
81, relating to what is usually de-
scribed as the freedom Of the seas, is
open to various interpretations soula
Of which they could not accept. They
/ must, therefore, reserve to themselves
complete freedom on this subject when
they enter the peace conference. Ger
many subscribed to this modification
ard acqulesced in the various demands
of the ar1nistice, among them thu Sup
ulation that every U-boat be surren-
dered to the victorious arms of democ
racy.
In the Court of Public Opinion
Just what will happen to the u
4 boat at the peace conference is a con
y Jectural matter upon which no one can
{ base conclusive assumption. BY
I many expressions OF public opinion in
! various courts and market places of
n the world it is certain that were the
z submarine as an instrument of war
& fare placed Oh trial before the moral
q court of the world at the present time
& it would be condemned forever to
u oblivion as ''piratical weapon of in
B famous and illegitimate warfare" BY
n the women and children who persisted
miserably on the Lusitania; by the
H thousands of noncombatants who have
n gone down to death in helpless mer-
4 chant ships; by the Red Cross nurses
81 and countless wounded who were
Z trapped and overwhelmed in torpedoed
q hospital ships; by all the Grand Jury
of horror-stricken humanity the world
Sover who have looked on aghast these
b last four years at the depredations Of
@Germanys ruthless U-boat fleets, the
N submarine has been indicted OF foul
murder in the first degree Whether
it is to expiate by extinction the
d crimes committed in its name by Ger
many-the outlaw who brandished a
\ stolen" weapon in fiendish carnival
without the pale of international law
Is a verdict yet to be rendered.
Whether it will be so rendered is a
question now before the court.
Fighting the U-boat and the COW.
its sheer coat of steel has so engrossod
y civilization that the question of the
future status of this instrument of
4 warfare has of necessity been deferred.
Now, with the time of reckoning at
hand, q great towering Interrogation
n point energies from the thin rnists OF
81 the sea at the bow of the submarine:
II ifs S1fnnorxv
per1scopes is cast this shadow of the
4 impending inquisition, reflected full
and free upon the culprit by the
searching sun of a reclaimed ciyiIiza-
ton. Already it has been decreed that
Germany must pay, and pay to the ut
most, for the diabolical carnage engi
neered from the turrets Of the U-boats
and from the chambers Of the German
Admiralty, where unrestricted war
fare" was ordered by the arch-villains
of the world. The case of the sub
marine VS.. the world is about to be
called.
Freedom of the Seas
Freedom of the seas, as Interpreted
by Woodrow Wilson, Lloyd George,
Clemenceau and other spokesman for
democracy, may mean the elimination
of the submarine as an offensive
weapon. BY all the damning evidence
piled against it, it may be ruled from
the seas-tabooed-eithe as an inter
national policeman or as q defensive
unit to be utilized in guarding coast
lines and harbors. Already the admin
istration of President Woodrow Viii
son, through the head of the Ameri-
can Admiralty, has placed itself on
record in this particular. Josephus
Daniels. Secretary of the Navy, had
this to say about the future of the
submarine to the writer in a Washing
ton interview last spring:
mo doubt the inventor of the sub
marine thought he was giving to the
world of science something great and
wonderful. Very likely he thought it
would prove boon to society. Instead
of that it stands out today the
scourge of the world. The world never
will be safe until the submarine has
been banished from the seas. L
do not think there will be any sub
marine after the war. It is my notion
that the nations of the earth--the tri-
umphant forces of democracy-will
ban the submarine forever from the
ocean. 1t is contrary to all the prin-
ciples Of fair play. 1 expect that
when the war is over the doom Of the