The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . substitute for a swift and mighty blow, andthus a blow most in accordance with the dictatesof humanity, a policy of hesitation and delay,betraying weaknesses and a bad conscience, and 10309 setting the seal on all our misfortunes. In truth,as I prophesied in February, 1016, the damagethat our available submar
The new Larned History for ready reference, reading and research; the actual words of the world's best historians, biographers and specialists: a complete system of history for all uses, extending to all countries and subjects and representing the better and newer literature of history; . substitute for a swift and mighty blow, andthus a blow most in accordance with the dictatesof humanity, a policy of hesitation and delay,betraying weaknesses and a bad conscience, and 10309 setting the seal on all our misfortunes. In truth,as I prophesied in February, 1016, the damagethat our available submarines could have achievedin 1Q16 was far greater than that caused in igi?.The decisive factor is not the number of sub-marines, but the number of sinkings. Our hesitantpoliticians were too clever to grasp this simpletruth. The yield of the submarines sank as theenemys defensive measures increased. These meas-ures required years of preparation, years which wegave them. The submarines could only bring usvictory during a certain period, and this periodwe threw away through fear of Wilson and hopesof his aid. The tragic figures which prove thiscould not be made public during the war, a factof which the opponents of the campaign took ad-vantage to continue their misrepri-sentalions. Out. ADMIRAL ALIKKI) \ 1 UKIlTZ of the mass of proofs I select but one single the spring of 1Q16, with restricted, that is to saywith quite inadequate, submarine warfare, thesinkings amounted to 17,000 tons per boat pervoyage. The experience of 1916 shows that theresults of unrestricted warfare are at least thriceas great as those of restricted. We should thushave been sure at that time of reaching a figure of51,000 tons per boat per voyage. But in the sum-mer of 1917 the actual sinkings were only 14,000per boat per voyage, and in the autumn of 1917they had fallen to 9,000. In the sprinc of 1916we could reckon on 205 submarines (in commission,building, or undergoing tests) for the financ
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