Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1916-09-06
NO HOSTILITY INTENDED.
German Sub. Not to Blame, Accord
ing to Report.

Washington, Aug. 31.-Germany,
In note received at the state De-
partment to-day, practically disa-
VOWS any unfriendly intention, in
the submarine attack on the Ameri-
can steamer Owego several weeks
| ago, and submits a statement of facts
which is expected to close the case.
The Owego was fired upon, but un-
injured
The German note follows:
"As established by admiralty staff
of the imperial Germany navy, a Ger
man submarine at 2.40, afternoon of
August 3, with very clear weather
| and smooth sea, sighted a slow-going
! steamer OF an old type and stood by.
"At a distance Of 5000 meters the
| submarine made the steamer a sig
nal to stop and gave two warning
| shots. AS nothing happened on the
steamer, whose flag was not recog-
nized. but which nevertheless con-
tinued to proceed on it's way, three
further warning shots were fired.
LAS the steamer neither made an
understood signal nor stood by,
fire was opened OH it. After six
shots (eleven shots in ALL it hoisted
American flag on the forestay and
stopped. The distance was now g.
900 meters. The submarine signal
ed Send Immediately boat with the
papers, to which the captain of the
steamer answered by hosting his
designation signal, but did nothing
more.
"When, after 4 further seventeen
minutes, no preparations were made
to launch boat, the commander Of
the submarine fired shot across the
steamers bow. After ten minutes,
the first officer came on board the
submarine and stated that the cap
tain had not observed the submarine
until then.
"The imperial government cannot
give any credence to this evasive ex-
cuse, since the note of August (the
American note) mentions ten shots
fired at the steamer, from which it is
undeniably clear that the warning
shots were heard by the captain Of
the Owego, but that no attention
was paid to them.
"Under these circumstances, the
imperial government finds itself un-
der the necessity Of emphasizing the
fact that, while the conduct Of the
commander Of the submarine was in
every respect correct, the behavior
Of the steamer Owego was not in ac-
cordance with the rules of interna-.
ttonal law. The captain would
therefore have had only himself to
blame had his conduct brought about
unpleasant results"
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