Evening journal., 1916-07-11
j. 5. Submarines
MADE first TRIP
Ten American Ships, Built
in America, TraverSed
the Ocean
BRITISH WILL
MOVE QUICKLY

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE first
submarines TO cross the Atlantic were
ten American made British submer-
sibles, which left Montreal. Canada
in July of last year, and made sue
cessful and more or less uneventful
voyages to England under the escort
Of British cruisers. They were not
obliged to do any submerging on the
way in order to dodge enemy war
ships. and made eight knots an hour
on the surface without any mishaps
These boats we're built jointly by
the Bethlehem Steel Works and the
Electric Boat Company The various
parts were shipped to Canada and
there put together.
These submarines steamed to
Portsmouth. a distance of $500 miles
from Montreal, and some of them
then went on to the Dardanelles. max
Ing a grand total of 1000 from the
Canadian port.
The exploits of the British z boats
IN the Dardenelles-S,5 800 miles from
Portsmouth-testified 10 the prov ess
OF these boats. The Ell and her part
ner Ella, spent twenty-four days in
the Dardanelles in the Sea of Mar
mora ralding shipping One British
submersible in that time succeeded in
sinking twenty-three ships and shell
ing two railroad trains, being the first
submarine to lombard place on
shore
No Trouble for British.
The British submarines have been
able to operate on a bigger scale
further away from home than the
u boats of the Germans by reason OF
the exigencies Of the war, but the
German submarines have gone often
and far from their bases. as the fire.
ouent sinking Of the ships of the AL
lies in the Mediterranean during the
past two years has proved. German
submarine activities have been re-
ported in the Eegean and off the coast
Of Syria.
The German submarine which sank
the Lusitania made a long journey
around the north of Ireland before
she was able 10 send her torpedoc'
into the great liner ten miles off the
Old Head OF Kinsale. on the southern
coast Of Ireland
On June % last the U-35 of the
German navy arrived at Cartagena
Spain, with a personal letter from the
Kaiser TO King Alfonso of Spain
Lieutenant Won Arnauld delivered the
letter and also unloaded some sup
plies and medicines for the crew of Z
German vessel interned in the harbor
Two days later a correspondent al
Madrid sent word to London that an.
other L boat was on its way to New
York with letter from the Kaiser tC
President Wilson.
Mystery In Reports.
Two weeks before this. however
rumors we're current here that Ger
man submarine was coming 10 visit
lis. A report even was published OF
June - that a bet of $500 had beer
made that German submarine would
register her arrival with customs
officers before July 5.
On June 27 people began to look fol
the submarine at Hampton Roads anc
the tug Thomas F Timmons started
to look for her in order to escort he
UP Chesapeake Bay It was then salt
that the U boat would have on board
a cargo Of dyestuffs and the Kaiser
letter
II was expected that she would
make port by June 20, and the fac
that she was obliged to go long dis
tance out Of her way to avoid vessel
of the Allies accounts in measur
for her being so long overdue.
In the early part of June it was re
ported in London that the feasibilt
Of a German submarine merchan
fleet. concerning which rumors ha
been received, was not disoounte
there The British then knew. it wa
said. that big submarine was bein
built at Stettin, and that IL was tn
intention Of the Germans to send he
from Hamburg on a trip to the Uni
ted States.