Abstract

The Week

This article presents information about several issues of world politics. In the U.S., the Senate followed the House in passing the $50,000,000 Flood Control bill. Thus is finally successful the determined movement for a new national defense against floods which began following the inundations along the Ohio and Mississippi in 1913 inundations costing more than 400 lives and $180,000,000. The amount carried by the bill is just about equal to the estimated annual loss from floods in the U.S. It is rather beside the point to argue the failure of the new submarine warfare from the fact that February's tonnage losses show at most an increase of 20 percent. over the two preceding months. The destruction of nearly half a million tons of shipping is a serious drain on Allied resources, and if the U-boat ravages were nearly as heavy in January or last December, it simply shows that the old submarine warfare is not much milder than the new war-fare.