Arizona republican., 1916-10-09

terrorized by the daring performance
 of German submarine. so far from | it's home base. | The British consul said he had no | information as to the present where l abouts of British patrol boats, all
 though he assumed that these vessels 1 had been notified by wireless that the l U-53 was a few miles off the coast. | It was learned today that the em bassys warning had been sent to Hali-
 fax, N. S. the naval bsae for British
 ships operating in the north Atlantic, and to other points in the maritime provinces.
 i The British steamer LeonatuS, with
 out wireless and cut off from possibil-
 lty of warning, is almost due here with
 large cargo of sugar from Cuba
 Her course would take her past Nan
 tucket shoals lightship.
 The British freighter Isle of Lewes, carrying supplies for war purposes,
 sailed early today for Manchester,
 England notwithstanding the U-53's
 visit to Newport The Great City, an
 other British freighter, deferred her
 sailing with a cargo of steel and horses
 consigned to the French government
 at St NaZarre, France, but her agents
 said it was because of slow loading rather than any fear of danger
 The Ward liner Bay State from Liv erpool, the freighter Hesperides, from
 Montevideo. and the City of Naples , from the far east, by way of San Fran
 cisco and the Panama canal were now headed for courses which were re- garded as probably crossing the path
 of the submarine.
 Immediately after the $. o. s. calls l from the West Point were picked up at r Newport today Admiral GleaveS or | dered out the destroyer fleet to give assistance. The Jarvis, one of the fast 7 est of the fleet, being capable of mak- [. ing 3l knots. had steam up and was !, one of the first to get away She c steamed out of the harbor at full y speed shortly before 1:30 o'clock. t Following the Jarvis as rapidly as f steam could be made went the destroy
 CTS DraytOn. Ericsson. Brien, Benham f Cassin, Balch, Mccall, Porter Tanning D Winslow, Aylewin, Cushing, Cummings Paulding and Colynham and the tender . Melville The fleet went to sea under 2 full speed and naval officers did no = expect the return of any of the vessel: t with survivors before d late hour. l. Securing the Sea
 ;t The destroyers had orders iron = Rear Admiral Gleaves, commander 0 $ the destroyer force. to spread out ant d search for the ships boats He sai,
 that the object in sending this larg a number of vessels was to facilitate tn l., locating of small boats Soon afte n the destroyers had departed, Admira le Gleaves, who was directing the opera
 tions from the flagship Birmingham
 which remained behind, received ; radio from the Nantucket shoals light B ship saying that twenty members c ,s the crew of the Strathdene were O h board that ship. Instructions were i'm l. mediately given to proceed to tn h lightShip and take them off
 k Just before s o'clock tonight radi Id message was picked up here statn l. that the British steamer Kingston ha of been sunk by submarine This wa m later confirmed by Admiral Knight 8
 Newport. All on board the steame D. were picked up by one of the destroy ir CTS sent out from Newport.
 1e The steamer Kansan, which turne e back to help the West Point, late he turned on her course and tonight wa NV reported coming into Boston harbor. Id message from Captain Smith of u IFS kansan, directed to the Associate nd Press. was received as follows: ze At noon today received distress sil he nals from the West Point. 1 starte
 back to her assistance and steered f, Int her till :45 ?. m. when message W; of received that the crew of B was aI ne preaching the Nantucket lightship lis two boats. I found the position of u of boat was nearer to West Point tha as that of the kansan so I gave up scare to and am coming to Boston.
 as SMITH" lis At o'clock tonight all the passel Ire gers and crews of the torpedoed vesse of had been accounted for with the exec
 tion of the crew of the Kingston. The ;ul were missing and were being soug th by the American destroyer Cushing. ,th is supposed that the crew of t ,e- Kingston took to their life boats n- The weather off shore was thick { is- night but the sea was calm with lit on wind stirring.
 b. Did Rose Make Arrangements? led One thing that is puzzling naval m ere tonight is why the U-53 came into DC he yesterday and another thing that an a SuDJect or speculation by many oJ At- side the navy is why a destroy
 flotilla of seventeen vessels was SC
 out to rescue the crew of sim the freight steamer The destroyers wt zen ordered out at the first report that { th- West Point had been torpedoed. nes Rear Admiral Knight reiterated tl to evening that Commander Roses c cry was one of courtesy, but it was sU the gested that the German command on- wished to guard against loss of l cen through the aid of American vessels