Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-29
DEUTSCHLAND GUARDS
REDOUBLE VIGILANCE
AGAINST ALLIED SPIES
Submarines Promoters Grow
More Nervous as Two More
British Tramp Vessels APP
pear in Baltimore
ALARMED BY REPORTERS.

BALTIMORE, July 2s-Fear Of spies
has grown to an obsessIon with certain pro-
moters of the German subsea freighter
Deutschland today.
with two additional British tramp ves-
sells In the harbor for cargo and the Brit
isher Ardgryfe making no move to load,
the Deutschland watchers have developed an
unusual nervousness.
Even trivial things worry them. An ex-
pedition from their tug, the Timmlns, for
instance, went hurrledly to the long private
pier to which press boats are tied, after a
discovery that a private telephone line had
been installed there. The press men saw
TO It that no step was taken to remove the
wires, for they knew that the Germans made
efforts along the waterfront for several days
TO clear away newspapermen and prevent
their obtaining boats.
The time Of the Deutschlands departure is
still an unsolved-and apparently unsolvable
mystery All the talk is that she Is
going out within days" but the truth Is
not in the rumor-mongers that swarm the
waterfront.
Indications are that the Deutschland pro-
moters are not unduly alarmed about the
fate Of the Deutschland's sister ship, the
Bremen, though they will be II she does not
appear in the next few days.
WASHINGTON, July 2s.-It is sug-
gested there may be an interesting story
behind the report that British cruiser was
sighted in Chesapeake Bay by the United
States warship Louisiana last Tuesday
morning. Some think that when the truth
Is known II will be found pro-German sea-
men fitted up ship and followed the Lousi-
lana with view to giving her the British
signal for the purpose of arousng sus-
pcon that the British patrol outside the
three-mile limit is sneaking in. The purpose
of such move would be to cause the
United States to increase efforts to prevent
any violation of neutrality when the
Deutschland makes a start for home.
Commander Phelps, of the Louisiana, has
sent second and fuller report Of the incl
dent, which says:
About 2.45 n. m. Tuesday. July 25. the
Louisiana, then standing for an anchorage
in Lynhaven Bay. a vessel carrying man.
of-war lights, without any other illumina-
tion whatever, came up on the starboard
quarter of the Louisiana. distant perhaps
not more than $50 yards, heading for the
channel into Hampton Roads.
THE Louisiana blinkered interrogatory
to her several times and turned on man
of-war lights. Finally she answered
(blinker) English cruiser She signaled
very rapidly, causing the Louisiana to have
her repeat more than once until we were
sure OF her signal. She disappeared In the
darkness toward the channel to Hampton
Roads.
II did not signal to ask her name and
her intentions because her actions had not
seemed fairly to disclose her presence
seemed fairly standing for Hampton Roads
and left me with the feeling that she was
actually going into port and would be found
on Fort Monroe in the morning"
NORFOLK, July 29.-Lieutenant Com
mander Shane. of the United States collier
Neptune. said he had forwarded an official
report to Washington corroborating the
statement from the Louisiana that an un.
identified warship was within the Virginia
Capes last Tuesday morning.
Members OF the Neptune's crew declared
she was just inside the Capes when she
saw signaling between the Louisiana and
another ship carrying man-of.war lights
After the exchange the unidentified ship
passed further up the channel toward
Hampton Roads. Half an hour later the
mystery ship was seen heading outward
carrying lights signifying she was a man.
of-war. The Neptune signaled, but she
did not reply.