Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-10
Latest Reports Show that Ger
man U-Boats Operating Off
U, s. Coast Have Sunk
Nine Commerce Boats.
TWO OR MORE OF sgBsEAs
Ask American War Vessels to
Get Out of Way So Ships
May Be Sent to the Bot
tom of the Sea.
SUPPLY VESSEL ALSO SEEN
Eighty Americans Are on One
of the English Ships, but
Saved-No Lives Lost.
HOLD UP AMERICAN BOAT
TWO OR MORE OF sUBsEAs
SUPPLY VESSEL ALSO SEEN
HOLD UP AMERICAN BOAT
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BULLETIN.
Long Branch, N. J., Oct. 9.--Secre-
tary Lansing, 1t was announced to-
night, will come here tomorrow for
a conference with President Wilson
concerning German submarine raids
off the American coast. Mr.. Lansing
Is expected to remain over night at
the presidents summer residence.
New York, Oct. 9.-The. British
steamer Strathden was fired upon
without warning, according to the
commander Of the ship, Captain VIII.
son, who was brought into port today
by the steamer p. L. M. No. 4 from
Quebec, with thirty-three members Of
the crew.
Newport, R. l., Oct. 9.--one Of the
destroyer Balch's crew said that he
saw a German supply ship attending
the submarine. The American de-
stroyers witnessed the destruction OF
some OF the vessels. In one instance
the American boats we're so thick on
the scene that the German submarine
commander asked the destroyers
Benham and McDougall to make way
for him to blow up his prey.
Boston, Mass, Oct 9.--German
submarine warfare, brought to this
side of the Atlantic, Sunday was pur-
sued relcntlessly throughout the
night. With the dawn came reports
Of more vessels torpedoed and sunk.
The captain Of the Nantucket light
ship, off which the attacks on passen-
ger and freight ships were made, re-
ported that three German submarines
were operating south and southeast
of Nantucket and that a total Of nine
vessels had been destroyed.
The identity OF three of this num-
Der was unknown, but ships front the
American destroyer hotilla at Newl
port were searching the seas 70. the
crews that we're suppose to have
taken to their small boats.
Three Bptish Cruisers.
Rushing to give bi tile to the SUBJ
marines, three British cruisers we're
off Nantucket shoals at 2:40 o'clock
this morning, This was the first ap-
pearance OF any warships Of the
French ard British patroling feet in
that vicinity since the submarines be-
gan their attacks at 8 O'Clock yester-
day morning.
The passengers and crew of the
Red Cross steame, Stephano and the
crews of the British freighters,
StrLthden. and Westpoint. and the
Dutch freighter, Bloomersdijk, and
the Norwegian freight steamer,
Christian knudson destroyed yester-
day, were landed Newport, R. l.,
today
The crew OF the British steamer
Kingston were missing this morning,
but the men we're reported to be in
lifeboats thirty miles southeast Of
Nantucket,
More Than One.
Early today the submarine, or sub
marines, had not been identified, but
there is no doubt in the minds OF ma
val Ulcers that one of the engines of
destruction was the German U-53
which delivered mail for the German
ambassador, Count Pernstorff, at
Newport yesterday. The belief is
growing that the U-53 is only one OF
:; fotilla of German submarines gath
cred for attacks on vessels of the al
lied nations and neutral bottoms ar
rying contraband OF war. Their op-
trations SO far as known have been
south and southeast of Nantucket