United States Adopts a Policy of "Armed Neutrality," Germans Sink 7,000 Vessels Germany, with feverish speed, had been multiplying her fleets of submarines, with the secret intention of destroying the ships of all nations that sailed the seas. Especially the Huns hoped to isolate England from her sources of food supply and starve her into submission. On January 31, 1917, Count von Bernstorff, the German Ambassador to the United St...