Arizona republican., 1916-10-10
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NEWPORT, R. l., oct. 9.-The whole sale raid on foreign shipping south of Nantucket lightship Sunday was the |, work of one submarine, according to ! reports of American naval officers. | Rear Admiral Albert Gleaves, com 7 mandng the torpedo boat destroyer flotilla, which did such remarkable speedy rescue work yesterday, said to- night that the reports of all his officers agreed that to the best of their obser- vation one raider only was concerned. | This boat presumably was the German U-53. which called at Newport Satur- day afternoon to mail a letter to Am hassador Von Bernstorff and then put to sea without taking on an ounce of supplies. although she had been seven teen days from her base, according toi the statement of her officers Admiral Gleaves said he could easily understand the positive statements of the captain of the Nantucket lightship and of sailors of the torpedoed vessels that more than one submarine was concerned. The U boat, he said, was very fast and appeared to have been handled cleVerly It was easy, he pointed out, for her to disappear on one side of ship and then show up un- eNpectedly at another spot. Doubtless. he believed she had submerged and reappeared often enough to mislead any but a keen professional observer and to create the impression that more than one sea terror was operating.
 This opinion would seem to be borne out by the statements of many of the refugees that the submarine had more business on hand than she could take care of at once, and was obliged to request one steamer to wait her turn while another was being put out of commission. Lieutenant Commander Miller of the destroyer Ericsson, who witnessed the destruction of the StephanO, said he was positive that only one submarine was in the vicinity at the time. Today the raiding had ceased, at least for the moment. The known list of the victims of the l. boats Sunday exploits remains at six, not withstanding reports from the Nan tucket lightship that three other ships, the identity of which could not be learned. were sent to the bottom. There also was a persistent rumor, without verification, that a British cruiser, one of the allied patrols sent to the sub marine zone, had been attacked
 Ten more refugees were landed here tonight by the Manyile. a destroyer tender. which picked up ten Chinese members of the crew of the steamer Strathdene.
 DestToyers swept the waters on a wide area today in a vain search for the crew of the steamer Kingstonian who were seen by members of the steamer Strathdene to take to their boats before their vessel was sunk Rear Admiral Knight. commandant of the Narragansett Bay naval defense district, does not appear to be alarmed at the lack of success ia finding the missing men, and saw no reason to change the previous reports that the raid was accomplished without loss of life.
 It was the commandants opinion that the Kingstenian's crew had been picked up by an eastbound steamer which did not care to divulge her pO- sition to lurking submarines by report ing the fact by wireless. Notwith- standing the lull in submarine activities today, shipping men were by no means reassured. If only one raider were concerned. she might be waiting only to replenish her supplies They be- lieved that this gave rise to a renewal of reports that elaborate methods of supplying foreign submarines from American bases had been perfected.
 In order to dispose as far as possi hle of claims of this sort as applied to the NarraganSett Bay district, " llllam IT. Walcott. deputy collector of cus- toms. made a careful investigation to- day to learn if any merchant marine had cleared from Newport Saturday or Sunday which might have carried supplies. MT. Waleott found no indi- cation that any such ships had cleared Another report persisting in shipping circles was that the call of Captain Hans Rose of tlF U-53 upon American naval officers here was to give an in timation that rescue ships might bC needed in the vicinity soon as well a. to exchange formal visits of courtesy Rear Admiral Gleaves commander O the torpedo flotilla, disclaimed in statement tonight absolutely any priol knowledge of the intentions of tn, German Y boat
 My only information" he said, wa contained in an s. c. $. message whicl said that the steamer West Point hat been sunk, and that her crew haC taken to the boats. The natural thin, 10 do was to order out every availabl vessel to search for the crew. As i happened, it was fortunate that we ha, so many ships out. and 1 am very gla, that we were able to render the aid W did" He concluded with the decara ton that nothing had passed betwee him and Captain Rose during thei