The Elbert County tribune., 1916-10-13
MUST Be KEPT
DECLARES PRESIDENT WILSON
AT LONG BRANCH.
Germany VIII Be Held to Complete
FuIfiIIment Of Promises Made
to United States.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Long Branch, N. 1.-THE announce
ment that Secretary OF State Lansing
would confer with the President on
the submarine raids confirmed the i'm
preston here that the American gov
ernment considered the attacks on
vessels off the American coast by a
German submarine as fraught with
grave possibilities.
At the same time 1t was made clear
that there is nothing in the reports so
far received to show that international
law or the earlier promises of Ger
many have been violated. Concern
over the situation centered chiefly
about the possibility OF what might
happen IL the submarine attacks are
continued.
ernment and its determination to
make full investigation before act
ing was made clear in the following
statement given out by the President:
"The government will, of course,
first inform itself as to all the facts
that there may be no doubt or mistake
so far as they are concerned.
THE country may rest assured that
the German government will be held
to the complete fulfillment of its
promises to the government of the
United States. l have no right now
to question its Willingness to fulfill
them"
London.-The London newspapers
generally devote leading editorials to
the visit of the German submarine to
the United States. The Pail Mall Ga
zette says that in the sinking of nu-
merous ships off the American coast
the government and people of the
United States have thus had an init
mate reminder of the character and
habits of the craft which had received
their hospitality"
Newport, r. I.-Seventeen days
from Wilhelmshaven, the imperial
German submarine U-53 dropped an
chor in Newport harbor Saturday. AL
most before the officers of the Amer
lean fleet of warships through which
the stranger had nosed her way had
recovered from their astonishment,
the undersea fighter had delivered a
message for the German ambassador
and, weighing anchor, turned Bren-
toms reef lightship and disappeared
b5heath the waves just inside the
three-mile limit.
As she came and went, she flew the
black and white colors of the German
navy. A gun was mounted on the for
ward deck and another aft, while
eight torpedoes plainly were visible
under the forward deck giving mute
assurance that the warship was ready
for fight at the drop of the hat.
Lieut. Capt. Hans Rose, who hung
up a new worlds record in bringing
an armed submarine in battle array
across the Atlantic, said that he had
called at Newport simply to mail a
letter to Count Won Bernstorff He
required neither provisions nor fuel
and would be on his way, he said.
long before the twenty-four hours dur
ing which belligerent ship may re.
main within neutral harbor had ex-
pired
The submarine was in American
waters little more than three hours,
provided that she continued to sea
after submerging. Within that time
the German commander paid official
visits to Rear Admiral Austin NJ
Knight, commandant of the second
naval district, and Rear Admiral
Gleaves, commander of the destroyer
force OF the Atlantic fleet.