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VON HOLTZENDORFF EXPLAINS Admiral von Tirpitz s could not send an army to France it would be im ¬ possible to solve the transportation problem problemAdmiral Admiral von Iloltzendorff now is trying to ex ¬ plain how the American troops have been trans ¬ ported and why the Americans can continue to transport them and why Germany cannot prevent it The enemy says the official explainer ill an official interview for the official press appro ¬ priated neutral shipping to improve their oversea transport transportThere There was another reason for the success of the enterprise which the estimable Aron Tirpitz knew could not succeed That was that A at their disposal for disembarkation of troops the coast regions from North Scotland to the French Mediterranean ports should we have our sub ¬ marines lie in wait at all of these ports to see if American transports arrive accompanied by fast convoying vessels Convoys do not arrive witli the regularity of railroad trains at great stations but arrive with great irregularity and at great iuter vals often at night in a fog And because of this the Admiral explains to the official interviewer there is little prospect of success in the special employment of German submarines against Amer ¬ ican transports transportsThe The Admiral does not say in as many words that it was a mean trick to use more steamers than Germany had figured could be had for such use He does not say that it was unfair and un ¬ kind not to approach designated Entente ports upon schedule the schedule advertised and invite the German submarines to have a try at each trans ¬ port but it is evident that he feels that way about it itIt It is irregular and unexpected American methods that makes the impossible possible llad the Ameri ¬ can attempted their delivery of troops as Von Terpitz expected he Von Iloltzendorff would have had the pleasure now to remind the Germans in an official interview of the fulfilled prophecy of Von Tir ¬ pitz but the pesky Americans always ready to abide by The Hague conventions cannot be relied upon to wage war under the Von Tirpitz conventions They are tame seemingly spineless and unenterpris ¬ ing lot until you worry them into the mood to wage war and then they upset your calculations by flying at you like a nest of hornets in a violent unforseen manner In such circumstances under such conditions because of such preverseness they get 1000000 men into France in ten months or so but if they had done otherwise as the reasonable Von Tirpitz expected why of course the result would have been otherwise and so Von Tirpitz was not wrong The Americans were wrong Nobody can forecast what will be done by those who do un ¬ expected things thingsDcnnorwctter Dcnnorwctter What is it you expect of our sub ¬ marines Would you have them defeat geography and perversity Louisville CourierJournal
