Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-14
Orderly on French Cruiser,
Now at Pensacola, Says
Wireless Received Sub
marine Was Sunk.
CAPTAIN DENIES RUMoR
British Patrol Boat Made Claim
It Hit Boat While Sub
merging.
MARINE MEN DOUBT STORY

ueIy VI Sdptdil Llquc, commanding
the French armored cruiser Admiral
Aube, asserted here yesterday that
last Tuesday, August 8, the cruiser re-
ceived wireless message from a
British patrol boat in the Atlantic
saying it had sunk the German sub
marine Deutschland that morning.
Captain Lique tonight asserted he had
received no information whatever
about the Deutschland
According to the orderly, the radio
dispatch told how the submarine was
sighted while running on the surface
at night, and was sent to the bottom
just as it attempted to submerge at
daybreak.
The Admiral Aube, an imposing
looking FOUR -funneled craft, steamed
into Pensacola harbor today and
dropped anchor. 1t is the first allied
warship to enter an American port
since the war began, and the event
caused a furry of excited curiosity
along the water front.
Came After Documents.
Captain Lique informed the COL
lector of the port that he had come
solely to get some important docu-
ments from the French consul here,
and that he would go to sea again
tomorrow morning. Until he landed
ard went to the customs house it
had been understood that he bad
run short of supplies.
To the collectors suggestion that
he might take on coal and supplies
sufficient to make his nearest home
port, the captain replied that his
stores were ample and that he would
leave early tomorrow.
a. he French consul has some very
important papers which | desired"
said Captain Lique. Il came up from
Martinique, and inasmuch as | had
been cruising in the gulf for the last
ten days, decided to come into PEN
sacola and get them"
May Be on Patrol Duty.
Local shipping men believe the
warship is on patrol duty off the gulf
coast and has been examining,harbor
entrances to ascertain if German
submarine could enter any OF the gulf
ports. For the last ten days the
crews of German and Austrian mer-
chant ships laid up here have been
telling German sympathizers that the
Bremen, the Deutschland's sister ship,
had selected Pensacola as its port of
entry and that allied warships were
on the outlook.
French consul Howe spent few
minutes aboard the cruiser soon after
it arrived and returned to the city.
Half an hour later he returned, pre-
sumably to deliver the documents to
the French officer. The consul said
he did not know their contents.
Lieutenant Barnes of the United
States destroyer Roe went aboard the
Admiral Aube and was joined there
by officers from the United States
aviation station at Fort Barrancas.
There was a conference lasting half
an hour.
1t was learned that the cruiser left
Martinique two weeks ago, and has
about forty German prisoners aboard,
some OF whom were captured several
months ago.
Don't Credit Story.
Norfolk, Va, Aug. l3.-Marine OBJ
servers last night were not inclined
to credit the French orderly story that
a British patrol boat had sunk the
Deutschland. They pointed out that
August s the submarine was six days
on its return journey to Germany,
and that unless it had machinery
troubles it would have been far out
in the Atlantic on that date.
These observers pointed to the fact
that the Deutschland could submerge
in one minutes time and that a ship
could not have followed for any
length OF time at night without ad-
vertising its presence by using a
sesrchlight.
Nothing has been heard here from
the Deutschland since August 2. 1t
was last seen submerging one mile |
off Cape Henry the night Of August 2.
That It eluded the enemy patrol off
the capes has not been doubted here.
Had Not Heard Of 1t.
Halifax, Aug. l3.--Admiralty Of
ficials at this port, which is the head
quarters for British naval operations
in the eastern Atlantic, tonight said
they knew nothing of the sinking of
the German submarine Deutschland, |
reported by an orderly OF the French |
cruiser Admiral Aube at Pensacola