The Ozark spectator., 1916-10-14

stoned for three months and not re- quiring fuel or so much as jug of water.
 Samuel Prey, New England agent of the American-Hawaiian Steamship Company. whose steamer, the EAnsan. was halted by a submarine, .a;.: he had received no information from Capt. Smith concerning the incident. The Kansan, which is under charter to the French Canada Line, was ex- pected to arrive here, but changed her course in response to distress calls from the steamer West Point. At l o'clock the Kansan notified the Boston navy yard that she was 55 miles from the disabled steamer and expected to reach her in five hours, travelling at speed of 12 knots.
 The Kansan left New York with cargo of steel and was coming to Bos ton on her way to Genoa to take aboard shipment of horses for the entente allies. Within the immediate zone of possible further operations by the U-53 are several transatlantic steamships under registry of nations with which Germany is at war. Also the American line steamer Philadel- phia, with passengers and freight from l New York for Liverpool, is in the wa ters from which reports of German submersible have come, and the Scan- dinavian-American liner Frederick VIII is approaching that part of the coast, bound to New York from Copenhagen. l Many Allied Ships Near. Better known among the vessels. be- cause of their registry and their pres ent positions to the submarine men, 1 ace, are the French liner Epagne, from Bordeaux for New York; the Anchor liner Cameronia, bound to New York from Glasgow and Liverpool, and the Cunarder Alaunia, only few hours out from New York for Falmouth and London. Other vessels of lesser size were reported approximately in the same waters.
 1 Most of these steamships had re- ceived by wireless word sent broad cast by radio stations to all vessels of the presence of the German submer- sible of the New England coast. This was regarded as constituting orders to change courses. The result was in dicated in messages that this vessel or that was swinging in-shore to be re- moved further from possible contact with the submersible and to be within easy speeding distance of the three mile zone of protection.
 Francis P. Leay, the British consul here, was in constant touch with steamship officials. and on the strength of reports that the submarine had begun wholesale attempt to de- stroy entente vessels, a code message was dispatched to the embassy at Washington setting forth the facts as far as obtainable.
 Consul Leay declined to make any statement. He explained that while press reports had chronicled the de- parture of the U-53 from Newport, it was necessary to give British ships of- ficial warning in order to safeguard them from attack. There was no doubt in the mind of those at the con. sulate that the submarine had come to American waters to begin operating off the Atlantic coast. it was said, and every effort, therefore, was made to notify shippers of the possible dan. ger
 Shipping Is Terrorized.
 When it became known early in the day that the American steamer Kan san had been halted much fear was ex- pressed among steamship officials that the American steamer Kansan had been halted much fear was ex- pressed among steamship officials that the U-53 would be heard from in . few hours at the latest.
 Telephone messages forthwith were sent to agents of steamship lines here. and the consulate endeavored to get into communication with every mas ter of British vessel along the coast. There was no attempt to dis guise or conceal the fact that ship ping had been terrorized by the daring performance of German submarine so far from it's home base.
 The British consul said he had no information as to the present where ahouts of British patrol boats. all though he assumed that the vessels hadsbeen notified by wireless that the U,53 was few miles off the coast. It was learned that the embassy's warn ing had been sent to Halifax. N. S., the naval base of the British ships operating in the North Atlantic, and to other points in the maritime prov inces.
 Whether any vessels had remained in port because of the submarines presence could not be learned, but the warning was so general and reports of the attacks on the West Point and the Strathdene spread so rapidly, that maritime authorities admitted unusual precautions were being taken to re- main out of the line of danger.