The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 22, 1917, Page 1

| - to avoid war, VOL. XXXIX. Seems cence. 120 cE Se 2 SRY SNES CSIR Se U-BOATS ARE FAR BEHIND Less than 1-4 of Scheduled British Tounage Sunk in Half Month. 17.—-Cerr behind on their Hondon, Feb, marines are far schedule of sinking 1 million tons} way of Spain. , hipping a anenth, s the suc of British which bas plan to ste Eneland in three month © predicted. in seven-| teen days a total of 117 vessels have been sunk, ineliding ti and other unimportan boats, while the total tonr only zt only two-thi and est. nana would fall victims to} the submarine in the ca: io loss wee the fi onnage sunk has fallen o considerably, while it is cc ithout officiel! contin there has J tion, “th 1a heavy loss in German submarines. Thus, it would man camp ign ? he even more of Gor ikely to te number ¢ sion, thal, he power Me pr indicated that ¢ up his had such on the question, but} cl step under cor tion ' of thre. 1 Sility that a*ter adjournment e sud- den cmergency might arise ne sitating action before Cong could be eallod: together agi Net to Hamper With Details The s stion was made that | Congress ht be asked to pass |] i ! } a broad resolution, authorizing the Presi i neces- 3 sary int tection || of Amer voiding |j apecific stipulations as to how the | protection should be afforded. It was indicated that Mr, Wil-| son remained as unxious as ever} and that he gave no! ion ot allone can} ered by him} e any tion that a which Congres is even consi sug war, make, at present in connection with the| possibility ol a request for addi-; tional authority | ope to Avoid: it. a | | | See Little The gene ecling here has} been that Germany’s subniarine eampaign sooner or later will lead | inevitably to such a violation of | Ameriern rights as will require | | the further action forecast by the} President in his addres; to Con- gress two weeks ago. The Presi-j lerstood to feel , how-1j time comes! dent is mic ever, that when the n to ia : intere mall rather than a declaration of war. The belief was freely expressed | | { i H i by some ollicials today that Ger- boat eampaign may de- j ‘anoth- | have many’s U- velop after all to be only * er failure.” Two passed without the ‘‘overt act. Statistics compiled by the State! artment indieate the toll of German U-boats is falling far be-| low the expectations of the imper- ial government, in fact, below the total tonnage frequently destroy- ed by submarines before the recent decree. Some uneasiness is re- ported among the German people over the failure of the U-boat to accomplish what was expected. weeks Deliver Up Yarrowdale Men. London, Feb. 17 (4:22 a. m.).— Nothing concerning the release of the American seamen taken pris- oner to Germany on the British steamer Yarrowdale has been re- ceived here beyond a brief dis- patch to the Exchange Telegraph New Y mense steel net, \ ill le impo Se that the great; worta dent bad net made | ‘es BUTLER, THURSDAY ET TLS SS TE EE NNT AY ARP IND | Stare ke FEBRUARY @z, "ore 6 comin evens Ciety, Company from Amsterdam quot-/ storming four lines of trenches, “toms. Another German U-boat BT i ing an unofficial Berlin telegram. | ws hase record of sinking a total This was to the effect that the) gays 400 U- ae ts Wore Taken, | teiioce 6f 25,000 in five days. . ; 5 , men had been Janded over to the “act 4 ——- Fea rf “ ee van sub-| Dutch ministf and that they >? ltimore Web, 18—The mers} 9 \- Ro ae Fee OM OA ac emule ne AUHa. would probably he sont home by chant submarine Deutschland has! Bound to Coie. u dL fhe tamil heen Coad it Was gsser ted | posal that the distillers : ee d upon| NG Ane phere today by William “Palmer, ‘| Hrowers af the Unitet > if r4 aot le i second engincer of the American WiOeE sides (hve re a ss of thei New Vork Harber Carded bY jooicsort linen Manual ae mer Teed tht a us , : ausport Rion al sot port the yiants to rs Steel Net. 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