Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-09-11
Numerous Operations
AGAINST Submarines
Officially Reported
Admiralty Indicates
Sea Forces Are Getting
Into Full Stride

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 1l.-Great Britain
intensified her naval and economic
warfare against Germany today,
having lost IL merchantmen in the
first eight days At what the cabinet
regards as a war that will last at
least three years.
Public opinion also seemed in
clined toward preparations Tor
long war and scorned what were
presumed to be German intentions
of offering peace after a lightning
conquest of Poland.
The press almost unanimously
backed up the cabinets decision to
base its policy on the premise OF
q 3-year war, regarding the an
nouncement as Britain's "Wltherlng
answer to a peace feeler" in Ger
man Field Marshal Hermann Will
helm Goering's speech Saturday.
Furthermore, dispatches indicated
the final blows against Poland were
not imminent. War correspondents,
whose reports just are beginning TO
reach England, stressed Polano S
army still is intact, and that With
drawal always has been part OF the
Polish plans.
British Diplomacy Active.
British diplomacy has been active
on many fronts since the war began.
In Italy, Japan and Spain. all anti
Comintern partners OF Germany,
British diplomats apparently nave
been making the fullest use OF the
new German-Russian pact to en-
courage distrust for the Nazl gov
eminent.
In other countries as we'll the eff
fort to strengthen and add to the
British-French front apparently has
gone on during the war with even
greater vigor.
The war effort at home has
brought many restrictions on the
ordinary citizen and on business.
The big stores and little shops all
have been affected, They try to
maintain business as usual" but
few are able to do so.
AS the war entered its second
week its effects on the British still
were confined chiefly to sacrifices
at home and the public was told to
prepare for still more.
Twelfth British Ship Sunk.
The twelfth British ship sent to
the bottom was the 8,640-ton Mag
dapur The ministry of information
announced her sinking last night
with an undisclosed number of
casualties, but did not announce
how or where she was sunk.
The Erection GoodWood was re-
ported by the British Press Asso-
citation yesterday to have been sunk
in the North Sea, and the informa-
ton ministry added the name of
the 4086-ton Rio Claro, sunk We'd
nesday, to the official list.
A fishing vessel was said to have
rescued the crew of the GoodWood,
many of whom were reported hurt.
The crew of the Rio Claro was said
to have been landed in the Azores
by a Netherlands vessel.
CThe British ship losses yester-
day and the sinking of the Dutch
steamer Mark southwest of Den
mark brought the shipping toll
in the Anglo German sea war to
81. Twelve of those were British
one French, five German, two
Dutch and one Creek
The government answer was
twofold 1t swung into an "unre-
hitting" campaign of attacks and
counter-measures, and, secondly,
extended machinery for its contra
band control through stations in
Gibraltar and Alexandria, at both
ends of the Mediterranean, and on
Ceylon in the Indian Ocean.
Chamberlain Thanks Canada.
No details were given in laconic
communique which said "it ap-
pears that German submarines are
now operating far afield." But the
ministry of information said the
admiralty had received numerous
reports" of operations against sub
marines and probably some have
been successful"
Prime Minister Chamberlain
thanked Canada for joining Britain
In "the common resistance to Ger
man aggression"
In telegram to Prime Minister
Mackenzie King of Canada, Mr..
Chamberlain termed Canadas dec
laration of war profound encour-
agement.'
King George received Vincent
Massey, high commissioner for
Canada, in audience yesterday and
issued a proclamation later ION the
advice of His Majesty's Privy Coun-
Gil in Canada" that Canada is at
war with Germany.
British Moving Slowly.
The limited scale of British mil
itary operations except on the sea
in the nine days of the war was con-
sidered only a part of the British
pattern of moving slowly and
methodically at the start and in
creasing the tempo steadily as the
conflict went on.
Time is on our side" was the
typical British explanation of events
thus far, despite the harassed posi-
ton of their Polish allies.
The widely proclaimed idea of
lightning war led many persons
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