Judsonia weekly advance., 1916-10-11

OI tie lOSpSuoIlS duu We're SLOWLY gathering additional facts, were sud- denly closed to the press by an order from the Navy Department at Wash ington. It was explained that every thing learned by the government sta tions must first be transmitted to the Navy Department before being made public.
 Particulars of the attack, however, continued to come from merchant vessels. to commercial wireless plants shore.
 The U-53 which anchored for three hours in Newport harbor, while Com mander Hans Rose sent ashore cor respondence from Germany for the German ambassador, Count von Bern storff, and exchanged official calls with Rear Admiral Gleaves and Rear Admiral Knight, commandant of the Narragansett Bay station, slipped out of the harbor and submerged just in- side the three-mile limit.
 American Ship Not Molested
 At daylight she turned up south east of Nantucket and got in the way of the American steamer Kansan of the American-Hawaiian Line, bound from New York for Genoa by way of Boston, with freight. The Wansan was flying the American flag. She was stopped by the submarine. As surea that the Kansan was an Ameri- can owned vessel, the submarine later allowed her to proceed.
 Captain Smith of the Kansas re- ported in wireless message to the captain of the Nantucket Shoals light ship that he had been stopped. He said the submarine showed no colors, but from his meager description of the craft naval men were satisfied that it was the U-53.
 A half hour later the submarine en- countered the Strathdene, command ed by Captain Wilson and under char ter by the French Line. A subse- quent message from the Nantucket lightship stated that the Strathdene had been sunk and that the crew of 20 men were on the lightship. The steamer carried crew of 34, so there was some doubt as to whether the lightship had picked them all up or had correctly reported. The Strath- dene sailed from New York for Bor- deaux she was of 4,321 tons and 375 feet in length. She was built in Greenwich in 1900 and was owned in Glasgow
 Pursuing her hostile course, the submarine next came up with the West Point, bound from London for Newport News. The fate of the Brit ish freighter was told in the follow ing wireless dispatch from her con- mander, Captain Hayden, to the naval radio station:
 British steamer West Point stop ped by submarine and fired upon; i; getting boat ready. Position 40:25 north, 69 west Get cutter"
 West Point Was Sinking.
 Later messages gave further de- tails. One stated that the steamer was being shelled by the submarine when the message was sent at Il: 15 a. m. A third message said that the vessel was attacked at 10:4 45 o'clock 10 miles south of Nantucket. This message caused confusion regarding the exact position of the freighter. The steamer Kansan picked up the distress signals of the West Point to h0r icto the Boston Navy Yard, at 1:30 o'clock, received a message from the Kansan stating that the West Point was sink ing and that the Ka.nsan was going to her aid. The disabled vessel was then 55 miles distant and the Kansan was making 12 knots.
 Later private dispatch added the information that the submarine, after stopping the West Point, ordered the crew into their small boats. The crew abandoned the ship, which was then torpedoed. It was in a sinking condition when last reported. Menatime the American line steam ship Philadelphia, which left New York for Liverpool, had gotten within | the war zone and an S. o. s. wireless message was received by her com mander He held his course for the east.
 During the day no word came from the British and French patrol vessels which have been watching the Allan 1 tic coast, from which vessels of the ontapfo oIIioc with ro1nitiouc .Of war have daily set out. A message was sent to Halifax asking for the press l information as to what was being done to protect British and French ship ping from the submarine. The reply