Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-14
DANIELS TELLS HOW
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want YOU 10 know certain inside
facts concerning the message which that
daprcr little man carried TO the State
Department. whereby he jolted Wash
inSton out of its routine. and am go
ing 10 give YOU n view of the momeN-
tous Cabinet meetings which followed
his visit.
4 shall tell you the story of a certain
= W. Davidson" who went to London
before the United States declared war.
and of the conversation ! had with him
before he left.
You will recall the dispatches you read
three years ago concerning the giant
German gun which. from a remote dis
lance and a carefully. concealed base,
was killing women and children in Paris.
You will remember the shock of horror
you felt when you read how shells had
fallen in the little Church Of st. Ger
Vaise on Good Friday. 1918. turning the
sacred precincts into a hideous shambles.
DO YOU know that the United states
played a part in ending the bombard-
ment Of Paris? 1T will interest you 10
learn how our navy contributed to the
relief Of the shell-shaken French capitai.
Nation with Child's Heart.
Ana | VIII tel YOU a ItN III NNs'~'
America is yet young nation. and IT
has a strong. clean child heart. That Is
why. perhaps. when it went to war its
sailors hased some of their code signals
on nursery rhymes. Only a child-heart-
ed nation would have thought of that.
No German could think of such a thing,
and in that very fact lay the usefulness
of their signals. They were a part OF
our intelligence service. Just what part
| win tell you before my story ends.
We have heard a lot about the impor-
tance of cables lately, and little is
land. about 10 miles long. in the Pacific,
bearing the comic opera name of Yap,
has assumed a prominence out Of all
proportion 70 its size and comm ercial
value merely because it is a convenient
cable station.
You would think from all this talk
that cables are absolutely essential to
the maintenance Of worldwide COM
lmunications Beyond doubt they are of
tremendous Importance. and no nation
can afford 10 neglect it's interests in the
matter Of submarine telegraphs
Not Dependent on Cables.
But what would you think IL / told
you that had Germany been able 10
sever the cables by which the United
states was linked TO London and Paris
and American headquarters at Chau-
mont. we could. nevertheless. have COM
municatCd almost instantly with Lloyd
George. on Clemenceau or General
Pershiug2 In like manner. although
with more difficulty. we could reach
every ship la tho United States Navy.
wherever stationed, from the China
sea 10 the Ray Of Biscay.
Thc miracle which made this possible
was created within few months after
we entered the war. and its accom-
plishment lifted from our shoulders one
of the big anxieties which had been al
most constantly present-the fear that
some enemy raider or submarine might
cut the cables, leaving us isolated from
our soldiers n France. our allies and
our lighting squadrons in the war zone
waters.
/ want 10 tell you in some detail how
this miracle was worked and about the
great wireless station which can fash
radio messages around the world.
Indians ~wireless- System.
The early pioneer vending his way
with his wagon train across our west
cin prairics saw in the smoke signals
uf the Indian the earliest American at
tempts at communicating over long
distances. II is a far cry from the
smoke signals Of the Indian to the story
OF this world girdling radio station.
Where was it? who built it? Those
arc questions that viii be answered
later on.
When il comes TO hsnting, even
Clomenceau. the Tiger Of France, hunt
ing the tigers OF India. got fewer thrills
than any sob Of Uncle Sans navy on
board a destroyer chasing submarines.
laundering along through the jungle on
~ elephant for a big cat is tame work
compared with cutting the waves at 40
miles an hour in pursuit of foe whose
presence is known 10 you only by the
vibrations which the water carries from
his propeller.
We shall go on such a hunt before my
story is ended. and l will tell you how
the presence of the submarine in ada
cent waters was detected. and how we
were able often 10 distinguish one
type of vessel from another though
both were beneath the waves.
There viii be many interesting per-
sonalities in this narrative, and I shall
attempt 70 give closeup glimpses of men
who were conspicuous in the life of
and Of European capitals.
Joffre. Lloyd George. Albert Of Belgium.
Clemenceau. George of England. the
Prince OF Wales. Lord Northcliffe. Lord
Admirals Beatty, Jellicoe and
De Bon: Marconi and the Prince Udine
are among those who moved in and out
uf the picture. And speaking Of Prince
Udine. ] must not forget to tell you
how be caught the measles.
Here's Dapper Little Man.
But now TO get back TO the dapper !
little individual who presented himself |
AZ the Office Of the Secretary Of State |
Dn wednesday. January 81, 1917, about |
oclock in the afternoon.
This gentleman came with message |
Tor Secretary Lansing which had been /
waiting delivery for IL days. That mes
sage made Americas entrance into the /
war inevitable and sailed the doom of /
IA aiserism. IL was conveyed by Count /
.on Bernstorff and it announced the be- |
ginning Of unrestricted U-boat warfare
by Germany on the morning of the fol-
lowing day.
We know now that Won Bernstorf re-
,eived Germany's official declaration of
nerciiess submarine warfare on Janu-
iry 10. On that day the Berlin Foreign |
Office advised him in code Of the policy /
which had been decided upon.
On the same day Zimmerman, the
German Foreign Minister, dispatched to
his NOUS seF-oraoaT 4t,a@ |