Arizona republican., 1916-10-09

marine next came up with the West Point bound from London for Newport News. The fate of the British freight CT was told in the following wireless dispatch from her commander, Captain Harden, to the naval radio station:
 British steamer West Point, stopped by submarine and fired upon; getting boats ready. Position 40:25 north 69 west. Get cutter"
 Later messages gave further details. One stated that the steamer was being Shelled by the submarine when the message was sent at 11:15 a. m. A third message said that the vessel was attacked at 10:45, ten miles south of Nantucket The steamer Kansan picked up the distress signals and pro- ceeded to her assistance The Boston ! navy yard at 30 o'clock received a message from the Kansan stating that ] the West Point and that the Kansan was going to her aid. The disabled vessel was then 55 miles distant and the kansan was making twelve knots. Later a private dispatch added that the submarine after stopping the West 1 Point ordered the crew into their small boats. The crew abandoned the ship l which was then torpedoed.
 1 Meantime the American line steam ship Philadelphia, which left New
 York yesterday for Liverpool had got
 within the war zone and an IS. O. S.' wireless was received by her con-
 mander. He held her course to the east.
 During the day no word came from
 the British and French patrol vessels
 that are watching the Atlantic coast.
 Fixed or Floating Base?
 bod { l.t
 submarines was off the coast. Another
 that the Germans had established {
 submarine base on the Canadian coast
 Another speculation was that supply
 ships were cooperating with the U-53
 It was pointed out that the submarine
 after Ostensibly cruising the Atlanti,
 unassisted arrived at Newport full,
 provisiOned for three months and no
 requiring fuel or so much as a jug o water.
 Samuel Prey, New England agent O 1 the American Hawaiian SteamShil
 company which owns the kansan, sait
 tonight that he had received no infor nation from Captain Smith concernin the incident. The Kansan was expect
 ed to arrive here this afternoon, bu changed her course in response to dis
 tress calls from the steamer Wes , Point. At one o'clock the Kansan noti
 lied the Boston navy yard that she wa
 % miles from the disabled steamer an
 expected to reach her in five hours. p The Kansan left New York with . cargo of steel and was coming to Bos l ton on her way to Genoa to take O . board shipment of horses for fin . entente allies.
 t Other Vessels in Danger Within tho t sible further operations by the IT.
 are several transatlantic steamshir - under registry of nations with whic 2 Germany is at war. Also, the Amer % can line steamer Philadelphia. wit passengers and freight from New Yor K Tor Liverpool, is in those waters an Q the Scandinavian American liner FreC d erik VIII is approaching that part s the coast bound to New York fro
 Copenhagen.
 } Better known among the vessels sui u Ject, because of their registry and the !. present positions, to the submariI ,. menace are the French liner Espagn '' from Bordeaux for New York; tl
 anchor liner Cameronia. bound to Ne P York from Glasgow and Liverpool. al - the Cunarder Alaunia only few hou d out from New York for Falmouth ar
 London. Other vessels of lesser si
 were reported approximately in Il a same waters.
 d Most of these steamships tonig ar have received by wireless warning l. the presence of the German submari "a off the New England coast I'll le message as sent to steamships 2. Great Britain's merchant marine W 1t regarded as constituting orders | Chgnpp J. indicated in messages tonight that Il
 vessel, or that, was swinging in sho In to be within easy speeding distance at the three mile zone of protection. D. Francis P. Leay, the British cons Is here, was in constant touch wi al steamship officials and on the streng le of reports that the submarine had h
 gun wholesale attempt to detroy e
 tente vessels, a code message was d n- patched to the embassy at Washingt sd setting forth the facts as far as c CT tainable. While Consul Leay declin s tonight to make any statement. tn, ID was no doubt at the consulate that { sn submarine had come to Americ Iu waters to begin operations off the / 'H lantic coast.
 ta Shipping Terrorized
 n, When 1t became known that ,ra American steamer Kansan had be f- halted telephone messages were for nd with sent to agents of steamship lil in here. and the consulate endeavored i'm get into communication with ev
 master of a British vessel along
 coast. There was no attempt to e b. ceal the fact that shipping had b'