. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. as likely to work against 29G SUBMARINES AND WAR-ZONE DECREES the interests of the United States during the war. Howmany German reservists were residents of the United Stateshad never been accurately determined, and was largely amatter of conjecture. While the belief was that the numberranged between and 200,000, the great majoritywere men in middle life, or beyond. There was, however, anarmy of between 15,000 and 18,000 young reservists in the
. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. as likely to work against 29G SUBMARINES AND WAR-ZONE DECREES the interests of the United States during the war. Howmany German reservists were residents of the United Stateshad never been accurately determined, and was largely amatter of conjecture. While the belief was that the numberranged between and 200,000, the great majoritywere men in middle life, or beyond. There was, however, anarmy of between 15,000 and 18,000 young reservists in theprime of life, who had been here a short time—from threeto five years—and they might be properly regarded aspotential sources of trouble. Of the persons ordered appre-hended virtually all could be classed as quasi-officials ofthe German Government. Many were instrumentalitiesthrough which Captains Boy-Ed and von Papen carried outtheir activities. A few of the number could properly beclassed as spies.^ ^ Principal Sources: The Times, The Literary Digest, New York; TheJournal (Providence). The Worlds Work. Associated Press THE AMEItlCAX SOIXANTE-QUIXZE Of this gun, as made at Bethlehem, great numbers were supplied during thewar to the British and American armies in spite of German submarines V. IX—20 297 INCREASED SUBMARINE ACTIVITY, BRITISH, GERMAN, AND AUSTRIAN—THE COMING OF THE DEUTSCHLAND, AND THE CASE OF CAPTAIN FRYATT October 14, 1915—May 31, 1916 REPORTS from the Baltic all through the autumn of1915 gave evidence of continued activity in thosewaters by British submarines. At one time English reportswere that an average of one ship a day was destroyed. Ofmore consequence was the moral effect produced on the Ger-man mercantile marine which ever since the beginning ofthe war had been plying between ports of Germany, Den-mark, and Sweden. A state of panic set in which for thetime being paralyzed both passenger- and cargo-traffic, andstopt the ferry servi
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