Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-08-03
SUBSEA BEGINS
GREAT GAME OF
HIDE and SEEK
Submarine Deutschland Disap.
pears from View Soon After
it Passes Tangier Sound
At $50 a. m.
SIXTY MILES INSIDE CAPES
Rumor Allies Warships Have
Spread Nets Outside Three.
Mile Limit.
ONLY ONE SHIP IN SIGHT
SIXTY MILES INSIDE CAPEs
ONLY ONE SHIP IN SIGHT


sages received here late today said
the German submarine Deutschland
was off New Point Comfort, near the
entrance to Mobjack bay, fully forty
five miles from Cape Henry. This
would mean four hours run to Cape
Henry in the event that Captain
koenig decided to make his dash to
sea tonight.
The Deutschland's position places
it in or close to the channel Of York
river and marine men here suggested
that it might be making either for
that river or Mobjack bay to anchor
for the night.
Newport News, Va. Aug. 2.-Tha
Deutschland was reported off Thin
Bile Shoal lighthouse, about four or
five miles from Fortress Monroe, at
o'clock, 1t seemed to be heading
for Fortress Monroe.
Observers at Fortress Monroe said
at 4:5O that the vessel believed to be
the Deutschland appeared 10 have
anchored close to the Thimble Shoals
light.
Cape Henry, Va, Aug. 2.-The Ger
man merchant submarine Deutschland
had not been sighted here at 2:3O
o'clock this afternoon, twenty-onc
hours after it left Baltimore on its
return trip to Germany. Marine men
believed the boat had stopped some
where up Chesapeake bay, as not
more than seventeen hours would
nave been necessary for it to make
the trip here, even at a moderate rate
OF speed,
Fortress. Monroe, Va. Aug. ~
Eighteen hours after the German
merchant submarine Deutschland
sailed from Baltimore on its return
voyage to Germany, it had not been
sighted from the Virginia eapes or in
Hampton Roads and nothing had
been heard from it since $50 o'clock
this morning, when it was reported
OIL Iangier Sound, about sixty miles
UP Chesapeake Bay
Although last night it was said to
be making sixteen knots, it apparently
has been proceeding since at much
slower rate of speed. On the trip III,
the. bay after its arrival off the capes
only seventeen hours was required
for the run from Hampton Roads to
Baltimore.
Much surprise was occasioned herd
by reports brought by passengers on
an incoming coastwise steamer that
only one allied warship was on guard
today off the capes.
Rumor of Allies Trap.
Newport News, Va, Aug. 2.-Tha
German merchant submarine Deutsch-
land was sighted off Tangier sound at
3 O'Clock this morning. 1t was still
heading toward the lower bay at a
high rate of speed. Tangier sound is
about seventy-five miles above the
capes.
Two ;.eroplanes were seen flyin.
over lower Chesapeake Bay at Hamol
ton Roads shortly after daybreak this
morning They were not from the
Atlantic coast aeronautical station
here. 1t is believed they came from
the armored cruiser North Carolina
on neutrality patrol off the Virginia
capes.
The machines Unanswered back and
forth over the water at a moderate
altitude.
Passengers arriving today on an
Old Dominion liner from New York
reported that when the ship ap-
preached the Virginia capes, only one
foreign warship was sighted. They
told of seeing an object lying low in
the water, with two masts visible, to-
ward which the foreign cruiser was
heading. 1t looked like two huge
buoys with masts above, and some Of
the passengers thought it might be
supporting a net. 1t lay just outside
the three-mile limit, where the chan-
mel is narrow.
Passes Solomon's Island.
Baltimore, Md, Aug 2.-Last re.
ported as passing Solomons island at
ESQ o'clock this morning, the next
word of the German merchant sub
marine Deutschland which sailed from
port last evening for Germanyis ex-
Pected to come from some point in
lower Chesapeake bay. Solomons is
land is about eighty miles from the
Virginia capes.
The Solomons island dispatch said
that the Deutschland was steaming at
speed of about sixteen knots an
hour; that there was no indication
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