The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-10-10

search for the crew of the British
freighter Kingston OF Kingstonian, tor
pedoed and sunk by the German sub
marine Sunday impossible. Little
hope remains that the crew may still
be riding the waves in their life
life boats. The submarine has COM
pletely disappeared.
Newport, r. l., Oct 10.-The whole
sale raid on foreign shipping south of
Nantucket lightship Sunday was the
Work of one submarine, according
to reports of American naval officers.
Rear-Admiral Albert Gleaves, com
manding the torpedo boat destroyer
hotilla which did such remarkably
speedy rescue work Sunday. said last
night that the reports OF all his Off
GERS agreed that to the best Of their
observation one raider only was CON
cerned
This boat, presumably, was the
German U-53, which called at Newport
Saturday afternoon to mail letter
to ambassador BernstCrff and then
put TO sea without taking on an ounce
of supplies, although she was II days
from her base. according to the state
ment of her officers.
Admiral Gleaves said he could
easily understand the positive state
ments oil the captain of the Nantucket
lightship and Of sailors of the torpe
doed vessels that more than one sub
mersible was concerned The U-boat
he said, was very fast and appeared
to have been handled cleverly. 1t
easy, he pointed out, for her to disap-
pear on Cne side of a ship and then
show up Unexpectedly at another spot,
Doubtless, he believed, she had sub
merged and reappeared often enough
to mislead any but a keen profession
al observer, and to create the Impress
ion that more than one sea terror was
operating
Ten more refugees were landed at
Newport last night by the Melville.
tender of the destroyer fiotilla, which
picked up 10 Chinese members of the
crew of the steamer Strathdene. They
were sent to the training station to
be held until immigration inspectors
can pass upon their cases. after which
they probably will be transferred to
New York.
Destroyers swept the waters for a
wide area yesterday in vain search
for the crew of the steamer Kingsto-
nian, who were seen by members of
the steamer Strathdene to take to
their boats before their vessel was
sunk. Rear-Admiral knight, com
mandant of the Narraganansett bay
naval defense district. did not appear
20 be alarmed at the lack of success
in finding the missing men, and saw
no reason to change the previous re-
ports that the raid so destructive to
property was accomplished without
loss of life. 1t was the commandant's
opinion that the Kingstonians crew
had been picked up by an east-bound
steamer which did not dare to divulge
her position to lurking submarines by
reporting the fact by wireless
], A, Andrews, who is connected
with the Grenfell mission in Labrador
was one of four Stephano, passengers
taken to the home of Mrs. Cornelius
Vanderbilt DR.. Andrews was on his
way to New York In describing his
experiences DR.. Andrews declared that
the Germans gave the boat proper
warning and then stood by until all
of the passengers had been taken Off
Officers of the United States torpedo
boat destroyer which had arrived in
time to take care of the passengers of
the Stephano visited the steamer" he
said, ito make sure that all of the pas
sengers and crew were safe Then
members of the German crew boarded
her and opened her watercocks" He
said no torpedo was discharged.
When LieutCapt Hans Rose went
warning on enemy shipping be placed
the submarine U-53 in position to
command both the incoming and the
outgoing lane of what is known as
the outside course Of Atlantic trav-
ell. Operating off the Nantucket light
ship he was much farther from the
American coast than the common de
scription of his one OF activity sug
gests.
The island of Nantucket lies 20
miles south of the elbow Of Cape Cod
The Nantucket lightship is stationed
As miles south of Nantucket island
Between the island and the lightship
are dangerous shoals. Accordingly
while operating off the lightship, the
U-59 was as miles from American
territory and 60 miles from the main
land SO far as an invasion of the
three-mile limit neutral zone was con
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