Arizona republican., 1916-10-09
IMPERIAL GERMAN
 NAVY'S LONG ARM
 ACROSS THE SEA
The Pasenqers and Crews
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 The passengers and crews of the des- troyed vessels who were being taken into Newport were not expected to reach there until after midnight Prep arations to care for them had been made by Rear Admiral Knight, com mandant of the Narragansett Bay naval station, and Rear Admiral Ebert Cleaves, commander of the destroyer flotilla now at Newport
 The crew of the Strathdene, nearly all of them Lascars, were taken aboard the Nantucket lightship Officers and men of the West Point took to their small boats after summoning assis- tance from short.
 The distress signals of the West Point were picked up by the government ra- dio station at Newport, R. l. Rear Ad- miral Albert GleaVes, commander of the destroyer flotilla of the American Atlantic fleet, ordered his ships to the rescue. The West Point gave her po- sition as fifty miles southeast of Nan tucket, but the navy officials said that later reports indicated that the vessel was not more than ten miles off shore. | The weather was thick. It was ex- pected that the crew would not be brought into Newport before midnight.
 Nantucket Heard Guns The booming of the submarines guns was distinctly heard at Nantucket. It was plain that the submarine had | placed herself in the lane of passenger and freight traffic and terrorized ship | ping along the coast.
 | In a flash wireless messages were sent up and down the coast and far out to sea warning everything afloat that | a German ship was operating in the steamer lane.
 Every vessel equipped with wireless | was warned to make for the three mile | gene and the commanders of merchant vessels of the entente allies lost nc time in shifting their course. Thos, that were following what is known a: the outside course turned to the inside course that would bring them closer t, American land.
 British consular officers who haC been advised by the British embass! to warn British shipping against tn | C-53 renewed their caution on learn ing that the submarine had gone int, action.
 News Flew.
 | Panic possessed the minds of ship pers at points along the coast when tn first reports of the torpedoing were re
 ceived. The news that the U-53 ha
 attacked British vessels travelled fast Anxious inquiries were made at news
 paper offices from seemingly almos
 everyone who had a friend on the wate [ owned a share of stock in a merchan ? bottom.
 ? The Frederik VIII of the Scandina ; van American line which is bringin home the American ambassador to Ger , many, James w. Gerard. and Mrs Ger ' ard, was 500 miles east of New Tor ] at noon today. Assurance that tn , ambassador and his wife were on neutral vessel was given to inquirin friends by the press.
 The radio stations were suddenl l closed to the press by an order frol D the navy department at Washington
 It was explained that eVerythin . learned by government stations mus r first be transmitted to the navy dc $ partment before being made public ; Particulars of the attack, howeve continued to come from merchant ves h sels to commercial wireless plants an Q through marine observers on shore. | Beginning Days Work
 At daylight this morning the U-i r turned up southeast of Nantucket ar - got in the way of the American steam' O kansan of the American Hawaii con - pany bound from New York to GenC . by way of Boston with freight. TT
 Kansan was flying the American fla e She was stopped by the submarine
 5:30 o'clock. Assured that the Kanss
 was an American owned ship the SUI
 marine allowed her to proceed. - Captain Smith of the Kans; d reported to the Shoals lightship tn - he had been stopped He said the SUI g marine showed no colors, but from h II meagre description of the craft, nav e men were satisfied that it was t 70 U-53.
 First to Go Down 10 A half hour later the submarine e ! cOuntered the Strathdene command ,- by Captain Wilson, and under chart
 by the French line. A subsequent me 70 sage from the Nantucket lightsh l. stated that the Strathdene had be Q sunk at six o'clock this morning al l., that the crew of twenty men were 'O the lightship. The steamer carried If crew of 34. There was doubt as ,e whether the lightship had picked the l. all up. The Strathdene sailed frG m New York for Bordeaux yesterday a IF ternoOn. She was of 4,32l tons a a S75 feet in length. She was built Inf Greenwich in 1909 and was owned ,s Glasgow
 yo The Next Victim no Pursuing her hostile course, the su