Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1916-08-03
Navy Department Notified
That Boat Passed
Capes
TAKES SOUTH COURSE
Allies Warships Near Mouth of Bay
Unaware That Submarine Has
Passed Out.

Norfolk, Aug. s.-Foreign war
ships are still on guard off Cap
Henry this morning and are appar
emily unaware that the German sub
marine Deutschland passed undel
them last night on her way back tt
Germany.
The eight warships are reported
strewn out along the coast in fan
shape formation The, Deutschland is
reported to have taken. a southerly
course.
Norfolk, Aug. 3.-Somewhere in
the direction of Germany, safely past
the allied warship patrol, the SUBJ
marine merchantmen, Deutschland is
boring her way through the Allan
tic toward her home port of Bremen.
Fragmentary reports coming into
Hampton Roads indicate the pioneer
submarine blockade runner has not
poked her periscope above water
since she submerged near the capes
last night.
At that time the nearest British
warship was five miles distant, ac-
cording to the tug Thomas F. Tim
minis, which accompanied the
Deutschland as far as the capes.
Norfolk, Va, Aug. 3.-The Ger
man -snbInariinc freighterzp Deutschland
was last night in the open sea: The
Navy Department at Washington re-
ceived report from the destroyer
Sterrett, in Hampton Roads, saying
the tug Thomas F. Timmins had re-
ported that "the submarine had pass
ed the three limit at $3.50 last
night"
The Deutchland, on her voyage
down the bay, got rid of most of her
escort of private boats, which car
ried reporters, photographers, NOV
ing picture men and some sightseers,
long before she reached -, Tangiers
Sound at 6 o'clock yesterday morn
ing. Several were forced out Of the
going at Annapolis, others landed
their passengers at Leeds, and 9TH
ers returned to Baltimore. The small
boats encountered "choppy" seas.
When she made shere dash to sea
last night she was not to be accomp-
anied to the Capessby the tug Tim
Minis. If the British ships outside are
expecting to get sight Of the
Deutschland through the presence of
her convoy they were doomed to dis
appointment.
The private. boats : following the
underwater vessel saw the last of the
Deutschland before she reached Cape
Henry. The cruiser North Carolina
and several torpedo boat destroyers
held them up. until the German visi-
tor got out into the Atlantic.
Bay steamer arriving here yester-
day reported sighting the Deutsch-
land at several points in Chesapeake
Bay They saw only one tug with her
the Timmins, but met one another
about 10 miles behind. The Deutsch-
land was saluted by practically every
craft that passed her and she re-
turned the courtesy. with two blasts
of her air whistle.
Two allied warships appeared off
the Virginia ,Capes yesterday and
kept moving. almost in a circle until
late in the afternoon. One of them
disappeared and two funneleG
cruiser took up stand eight miles
off shore. She was still there at DARK
but showed no lights. This cruiser
is of the converted type and is sais
to be acting as scout vessel fol
seven other allied warships, strewl
out along the coast for $50 miles.
Captain Koenig, who is afmilia,
with the coast, will endeavbr to TAX,
his ship into some, other America,
port if her presence is discovere,
while proceeding along the coast. l
she goes north he could proceed fo
many miles within the three-ntil,
limit and could put in at Delawar
Break@ater and even New Yor
without fear of being captured b
foreign ships, If they observed Il
international laws.