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PLAN U-BOAT WAR ON NEW ENGLAND COAST
Says Submarines Will Operate Near U. S. Shores.

Amsterdam, Oct. 20.-The Volkszeitung, of Cologne, says:

"German submarines will operate in future in the western Atlantic. They will visit well-traveled shipping routes around the eastern point of Nantucket Island after giving the crews opportunity to save themselves."

The newspaper believes this will influence the supplying of food to England.

Berlin, Oct. 20.-The Kreigs Zeitung the evening edition of the Lokal Anzeiger, publishes a report that the British have ordered the arming of all merchantmen and says as a result Germany may be forced to take up a sharper submarine campaign, with consequent endangerment of German American relations. It continues:

"If it is true that England actually intends to arm all its merchantmen with far-carrying guns, and thus label them plainly as warships intended for attack it cannot be avoided that, whether we wish to or not, we must give a sharper tendency to our submarine campaign.

"It is probable that if we desire to adapt our method of warfare to the situation created by the arming of British merchantmen, we shall have to go over carefully with the government of the United States all the possibilities of the newly created situation.

"For we may accept this much as now certain: Aside from a few jingoes and shouters, the American people would dislike most greatly to have the submarine question lead to a new dispute between Germany and America."