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sent from England to take over the submarines and pilot them across
the ocean.
“ ‘I was in Quebec Thursday, Friday and Saturday,’ Mr. David
said to-day, ‘and at the Quebec Garrison Club I learned of the com-
pletion of the submarines and of the intention to start them for
British waters. The boats were all designed in the United States,
and most of the parts were manufactured in this country and then
shipped to the naval yard between Montreal and Quebec, where a
large force of skilled mechanics were employed to put the vessels
together. None of the vessels had received a name when they sailed
and the name of the convoying auxiliary cruiser was hidden under
a strip of canvas.’
“The two flotillas are believed to be the first of the submarines
for European service to be completed in Canada since the outbreak
of the war. Others are -being assembled and in a few weeks it is
understood, another flotilla will be ready to start for England.”
Some weeks later a New York newspaper, commenting on these
submarines, said:
"The steel plates and bars and tubes and heavy oil Diesel engines
were manufactured at Bethlehem and shipped to Montreal. There
they were put together, the plates being shaped and the mechanism
being installed. Vtlhen the boats left they were fully equipped with
torpedoes. Trained submarine crews brought from England were
aboard them. “lord of their successful crossing of the Atlantic
has just reached here.”
The Bethlehem Logic
Mr. Schwab is a very able steel magnate with a remarkable power
of silence only broken by words whose use is both adroit and skil-
ful. But even through the maze of your year-old statements it may
be seen, first, that you could not really manufacture submarines in
Bethlehem which has a seacoast much like Colorado's and, second,
that if you simply build a complete submarine and send it to Canada
in parts, where other people put it together and then put it into
the water, these latter people are the fellows who manufacture the
submarines and you, Mr. Schwab, have nothing whatever to do
with it. Some remote, recondite and very old theory of philosophic
thinking would sustain Mr. Schwab.
it is perfectly true that the imported skilled mechanics in Canada,
to whom these parts were delivered, might have broken them up
and made expensive childrerfsytrains with them or superior sardine
THE FATI-IERLAND
receptacles or umbrella frames. They might. It would have been
naughty of them to use Mr. Schwab's submarines for such pur-
poses. But they didn't. They would have bccn more surprised if
any one had suggested that they use the parts for some such reason,
than Mr. Schwab would have been if they had done so. They were
just ordinary, simple, unimaginative men. They believed that these
packages contained submarines in parts; that Mr. Schwab wanted
to put the parts together and probably thought that Mr. Schwab was
supplying their bread and butter to put his submarines together:
and they very cheerfully and promptly did put his .mbman'ne.r to-
gether just as he intended they should.
No, Mr. Schwah is not "deliberately unfriendly." He is something
much‘ worse. He is a deliberate liar.
It would be futile to wonder how many more submarines Mr-
Schwab is making, left-handcdly. King's liars arc historic fig11"5-
His great and good friend, George, by the grace of God, King of
Great Britain and Ireland and (still!) Emperor of lndia, undoubt-
edly shares with Mr. Schwab his opinion of the intelligence of the
American people. Knighthood would be too good for him, Kin?‘
liar though he be. The words would not be sanctioned by any Com’
plete Letter Writer, but they have the virtue of concisely, suc-
cinctly, directly, wholesomely and honestly setting down the thith-
We shall hear of more Schwab submarines-but not from SchW3bv
K. L.
Other concerns in America have taken contracts for submarines
for Great Britain. They have come out and said so. The)‘ ha"
also said that their craft would not be delivered until the war W35
ended. They are, it must be confessed, men on a different plane
than Schwab, K L. They tell the truth.
A dispatch to the Detroit Free Press says: “The American Ship‘
building Company, of Lorain, has contracted to build 18 armoftd
steel hulls for motor boats. The contract was let by a man who is
thought by officers of the company to represent one of the warring
European nations. These boats, it is believed, are to be used f0f
warfare in inland water and for submarine destroying."
But such a little contract seems really unimportant. Nothing 9‘
its kind seems important after Schwab's, K. I... fleet. It is It 53
commentary, but how many million: would Schwab, K. L. ha" m
act to tell the truth? This “neutrality” verbal swindle bacon!!!
loathsome when we contemplate this fleet.
THE BRITISH PROPAGANDA IN THE UNITED STATES
By J. P. O’Mahony
Editor of "The Indiana Catholic and Record"
(The extent of the British influence over the Anm-icon press is Icnoztm to only a few.
Mr. O’Mahony’s revelation: bf Lord NON,"
dife’: power over the journalism of thi.r'caunlry will startle many. The following article is taken from the Indianapolis "Star" .f"“i
explams why certain new.rpaper.r in the United States jzrcfcr to some England rather than Uncle Sam.)
HE manner in which certain newspapers in the United States
are "playing up" the alleged "pro-German bomb plots” and
more recently the New York persecution in connection with the aid
given German ships in the early days of the war shows (to those
who didn't already know it) that there is more than one “foreign
propaganda plot” in the United States.
As far as the writer can observe, the only thing proven in the
New York shipping prosecutions so far is that the German consular
agents in this country faithfully carried out the instructions of their
government issued immediately before the war, to furnish supplies
to the few German ships operating in the Atlantic and Pacific and
that men of German blood and the oflicers of certain shipping com-
panies co-operated with them to aid Germany in the unequal fight
on the seas against the once world-conquering British Navy, that
had bases of supply everywhere, even in New York city. As Champ
Clark said in New York the other night, "All nations at war have
propagandas here,” and again, “the German bomb-plot is a mare’s
nest" and “the country is tired of it."
Alleges Northcliffe Control
Talking about foreign propagandas in our midst Lord Northcliffe
(then Sir Alfred Harmsworth), told the writer in an interview in
the'VValton Hotel, Philadelphia, in April, 1900:
“The syndicate of which I am the head owns or controls eighteen
very successful American papers in your leading cities. We find the
American service they send us very satisfactory and we, of cbuI'5C-
furnish them with our great European service. As you -see I 3"‘
not here on pleasure only, but on business."
When asked to name the papers “owned and controlled,” the big’
bT51lnY. handsome Englishman cleverly “side-stepped.”.
Now if eighteen or more leading papers are owned and controlled
in England, is it any wonder that the “German” plots in the United
States” are being “played up,” and the English plots in the United
States hushed up?
Is it surprising that the people, through the news services: B“
only the English side of the war?
Refers to Page’s Speech
Was our Ambassador Page at London very wrong when he said
at a banquet in London in February, 1914, "After all the United
States is English ruled and English led." Mr. Page's statement
appeared in the Indianapolis Star at the time and caused somewhat
of a sensation. Indeed it prepared the country for many things
that have happened since the war broke out, and the statement Of
the ambassador if made now would not create as much sufl3"l5‘
as it did when it was made in 1914. Nothing whatever has bee"
done to stop the British propaganda in America, if we except the
arrest of two recruiting agents ‘in San Francisco. Fifteen British