Arizona republican., 1916-10-08
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 NEWPORT, R. l., Oct. 7.-Seventeen days from Wilhelmshaven, the imperial German submarine U-53 dropped an Chor in Newport harbOr today.
 Almost before the officers of the American 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 at Bren- tons Reef light ship and disappeared beneath 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 fore deck and another aft, while eight tor pedoes plainly were visible under the forward deck giving mute assurance that the warship was ready for a fight at the dTcp of the hat.
 Lieutenant Captain Hans Rose, who hung up new worlds record in bring ing an armed submarine in battle array across the Atlantic, said that he had called at Newport simply to mail a letter to Count von Bernstorff He re- quired neither provisions nor fuel and would be on his way, he said, long be- IOTb lIe twenty -lDuI noutS uuIll'- which a belligerent ship may remain within a neutral narbor hau eXplreu.
 The submarine was in American wat CTS a little more than three hours, as- suming that she continued to sea after submerging. Within that time the Ger man commander paid official visits to Rear Admiral Austin NJ. Knight, com mandant of the second naval district and Rear Admiral Gleaves cOmman- der of the destroyer force of the Atlan- tic fleet. who was aboard the flagship the Scout cruiser Birmingham. Both American officers returned the brief call promptly.
 While these formalities were being exchanged. wireless messages were carrying to the ships of the British and French patrol fleet off the coast, a warning that a hostile submarine had slipped through their cordon.
 There were rumors, without appar- ent basis, that the German merchant submarine Bremen, long overdue, might be expected in the wake of the war, ship. Some naval officers expressed the opinion that the fighter had es- curted the Bremen across the ocean and C.hers that she was searching fol the merchant ship. The first question asked by Captain Rose when a motor boat came alongside was Have yol heard from the Bremen?"
 When he was told that there was nC news of the missing craft his face be came grave but he made no com ment.
 To naval men, the most interestin, fact disclosed by Captain Rose wa that he had been at sea seventeen day and still had provisions for thre months; abundant fuel. and needed n repa1rs. Not so much as a bottle O water was taken aboard, and the shl was spick and span.
 The U-53 was first sighted from Ian at 1:45 o'clock this faternoon, as sh was entering the inner harbor escorte by the United States submarine D.. The American had been outside fo maneuvers since morning and was re turning when she came up with tn German. The 'D-2 drawing near tn strangers and making out her typ, sent a wireless message to the shor headquarters of Admiral Knight, wh ielayed word of the appearance of tn U-53 to the navy department at Wash mgton.' The American submarine pre- ceded the visitor into the harbor.
 The first report had it that it wa the Bremen which was coming in.
 newspaperman who had watched fC weeks fer the merchant submarin climbed to the tower of the Unite States engineers office and with til aid Of powerful glasses, made out tw guns on the submarine