New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 9, 1916, Page 1

HERALD BEST OF ALL LOCAL NEWSPAPERS PRICE THREE CENTS. U-Boats Strike Terror Into Hearts of Shipping Men by Wholesale Attack on Nantucket- 'RED SOX WINNERS IN 14TH INNING “Down Dodgers By| WARSHIPS T0 ENFORCE Score of 2 to 1 and| gHERICAN NEUTRALITY Take Commanding Lead in Series Patrol Will Be Established Off Coast—U-Boats Com- ply With Rules. BROOKLYN ab. 5 s o 0 : | 0 o o [ 4 Johnston, cf. .. Daubert, 1b. . Myers, rf. Wheat, 1f. Jutshaw, 2b. Mowrey, 3b. . Olson, Miller, c. .. Smith, p. ‘Washington, Oct. 9.—The navy de- partment began today preparations to establish a patrol of warships along the North Atlantic coast to make cer- tain that American neutrality is not violated by the German submarine raids on allied shipping. AL R R R D R CoeommOOOS Asbury Park, N, J, Oct. 9—Secre- tary of the Navy Daniels in a pre- liminary report to President Wilson this forenoon, said that advices so far received indicated that all the of international warfare had been complied with by the German sub- marine operating off the Nes land coast. Totals rules [ Hooper, rf Janvrin, 2b ...... Wallker, cf ...._. Hobilitzel, 1b ... Lewis, 1f Gardner, Scott, Thomas, ¢ . Ruth, p Walsh, cf **Gainer *#*McNally El Eng- No orders were sent to the Atlantic 3b fleet or commandants of navy yards but department officials began taking steps to make ready all craft of the active and reserve fleet which could be assigned to the patrol duty, should de- velopments make it necessary to es- tablish a watch along the three mile Some neutral European coun- have been compelled to protect territorial waters against viola- tion in which Byfitish, German and an ships have been involved. Am- offcials are determined that no shall be attacked in American B CORUT o K K *Batted for Walker in Ninth. *#Batted for Gardner in Fourteenth. #*#*Ran for Hoblitzell in Fourteenth. BROOKLYN 10000000000000—1 BOSTON 00100000000001—2 Home run Myers; three-base hits, Scott, Thomas; two-base hits, Smith, | Janvrin, Gainer; double plays, Scott to | Janvrin to Daubert, Mowrey to Cut- | shaw to Daubert; sacrifice hits, Lowis 2, Olson 2, Walsh, Thomas; left on | Secretary Danicls gave high praise bases, Brooklyn 3, Boston 4; bases | today to tho Atlantic destroyer flotilla on balls off Smiih 7, Ruth 3; struck | fOr saving the lives of those compelled out by Smith 1, by Ruth 4; Um- to take to the small boats yesterday. pires, Dineen, ph O'Day, bases; | duick jaction® probably Quigley, left field; Commolly, right | ™ e gdestrovon 8. Jarvis put to sea from Newport with- in fifty-six minutes after the S. O. S. call from the torpedoed steamer West Point we received. Fifteen minutes later sixteen other destroye: had fol- lowed the Jarvis. Secretary Daniels made it plain that the only immediato interest of the navy department had been to do every- thing within its power to prevent loss ot life. I —_— HOLDS BERLIN TO PROMISE President Wilson Says He ships waters. The German underwater craft oper- ating off Nantucket shoals, it was said, have shown no disposition thus far to violate American neutrality, but offi- cials wish to be ready to establish the patrol without delay. GAME IN DETAIL. First Inning. Brooklyn—Johnson flied out to Walker after the count was 3 to 2.1 Daubert fouled out to Gardner, who had run to the home bench to make the catch, drove a long hit to the center ficld fence for a home Tun. The crowd gave him Myers had the the ball was returned Myer: big cheer. plate befare to the infleld. ‘Wheat flied out to Hooper, who took the ball on the run, One run one hit, Boston—Smith ¥as No crossed Right to Question Germans Word on U-Boat Warfare. Long Branch, N. J., Oct. 9.— dent Wilson announced no errars. toda. | result of tthe German submarine itacks on vessels off the the ball. Walker «‘ st that government iy o e D i ill be held to the complete fulfill- { ment of its promises to the govern- j ment of the United States.” He added | that he had no right now to question willingness to fulfill the promises. |1t Brooklyn—Ruth deflected CutshaW's| Jugst berore Gount von Bernstortt | the German ambassador, called on grounder to Gardner, who threw him put at first, ,Mowrey line flied to |the president at Shadow Lawn this Janvrin, The Brooklyns were hit- h:"tolx::m Mr. Wilson issued the fol- il v g 8ta nt: ting at the firet ball. Olson struck out.| “The government will, of course, No runs, na hits, no errors, | first inform 1itsclf as to all the facts Boston—Olson threw out H .| that there may be no doubt or mis- take 5 Vy o o Lewls singled over gecond, i “'f,‘,}‘lfi:* ’U“‘:‘n;“’ ‘)‘;‘,L) ':1"' oncerned. tried to pick Lewls off first nd Man- | mm‘nun Wo"ex:n{"m“‘.‘ ,?"5\);”\“" that gger Carrigan claimed a balk, It was | '\h’ B ant will be held | s not allowed, Gardner farced r\,lra‘\:l'in.!;;“Mm’wt‘.nl:v‘l;‘: P e Mowrey to Olson to Cutsbaw, Miller ;004 gtates, I have no right now to question its willingness to fulfill them.” a Lt tossed out Hooper, line fly to Myer to ¢ out of Janvrin sent a did tracks to get who not have hs Americ Ci “the German No runs, no hits, no erro Secoud Tnming, (Continued On venth Page). U-BOAT BLOCKADE MAY RAISE 1SSUE Washington Might Object to Sub-| marine Patrol in Aflantic | i | | i i | Government Oflicials Believe Opening of Organized Campaign Against Al- lied Shipping Is Signalized by At- tacks of U and Other Submarines ‘Washington, Oct. 9 extension of submarine war. western Atlantic apparently Germany's are to the | s not re- | | garded with apprehension by officials | here, although it is realized that it ! may develop a situation presenting | . i new and perplexing questions of neu- | trality. | While- | hela receipt of detailed reports on the exploit formal comment was with- today pending more of the U-53, and possibly sister submersibles, there was little disp. that American intere: tion to believe | were menaced | by the new campaign. The fact that warning apparently and those aboard the durin strengthened had placed of the day’s ope officials in their belic that Gemmany is following out hery pledge to keep U boat warfare within interx 1 Jaw. It was pointed out new zone operation American that the geographical proximity of the shores should not in itself impair the legally of properly conducted high seas warfare. been given in safety in | vessels sunk i of to Blockade May Develop Issue. Should a submarine flotilla develop a patrol approximatng a blockade outside American ports, however, a serious issue might arise. The United States notified Great Britain early in ! the war that it regarded the continued | presence of belligerent warships “in the offings of at American com- mercial cente a practice which may be rcgarded according to the aNNC of international courtesy ist ground for oifer though it may be strictly legal.” The Brit W government was T of the ence any rules principles interr tional law which render belligerent operations which are legitimate i one part of the high seas ille in another” but nevertheless back its cruisers from vicinity of American ters. That the attacks yeste tucket ma ganized c© lantic fic poss replied it aware ex of or of itimate | moved | the immec territorial wa- day off Nan- ‘ked the opening of an or- mpaign in the wes not doubted here. 1 t least Lialf dozen or more U-boats are assembled for the campaign and that a supply ship. perhaps a sub- | mersible of the Deutschland type is present. Whatever the destroyer flotilla in the a ations may have discovered regard- ing the number of raiders will be disclosed, however, the partment holding the di of such information would tral. at navy de- emination e unneu- TRANSRO Cruiser T TORPEDOED R Auxilinry Carrying 2,000 Ser- bian and F h Soldics Oct, 1.-—Or 1.200 Accounted Tor, Oct [& m.—The steamship lla, an & £ cruiser carrying 2,000 Serbian and French soldiers s torpedoed and sunk on October 4, by a submarine. hundied met by southern co: accounted f Tondon, Norvegi torpedo lar teh from C | desps | No | iistea i ‘can { phia | sent MPLE WARNING IS GIVEN SHIPS GREAT LINERS HELD UP fensive Guns, New and the possible their ozne notahle trical Tt cral ihe o nd that should further 1he White land, and and compar flag. Officials ftalian and seemed | Others, Equipped With De- Will Brave Perils, York, Oct. 9.—Owne others Atlantic | nations hostile to Germar uneasy night, ave ships. { within the zne ca urepean TV in tie-up cntente nations in American ports, but | Mercantile both issued that Inter mpany Amer no Br leav or sailir Sta ) Dominion the Dominion 1 Quebec. | terfere with the sailir Line stea lin senger and as menace, usual, At p social doubtfu] vessels of interested coast enue of Many German cores of engers, financial, 5 ional in and today news of = flving the agen near flags of ¢ passed an sought every the U-hoat Amer including some busin, les. today submarine raid would result in a gen- of the shipping controlling an vessel itish e Atlantic BrS Th of all Atlantic and Lines The or nship declared ships of por orde Red the lin or of the Cunard, that of steamers Transport, ar White for Montr will of the Ameri- any s vessels flying the American | St can regarding vessels danger and thea- that the of the Marine British orde pending stopped | of the Ley- Lines St al not in- of the French and their y t vessels would sail despite the Cur the d st bmarine | line of ces, it was pointed out, all vessels armed of that line have 4.7 inc Cdrman submarines lines a | avoided vessels 50 Officials of the F Isa treightors defense, 31 carry '3 inc id that nd liner. The Frer h ragid fi h were 1ch re gun: thus armed. ench far ind the have and TItalian their shins, both | armed for liners c inch guns and the freight he cannon, steamers under the Italian flag mount i inch guns. More than a score of passenger freight be near Nantucket Yorkl from east bound ble number of them to be laden with war munitions. important among New oth side senger ie: Liner 1 tea te and T Came mers mshij ports, and are believed today to Some are bound to foreign from here. and A con- e believed them are the Cameronia Alaun afjord due Most pas- Dante Philadel- The Anchor here today rom Liverpool with sxi hundred to The New an ceed by he Dar York ngers, fla it we way submarines The delpk were American Teft the 1 Saturday; I B3 Ottar s warnings were erday. steamer 1t or line toni te n and 1 f Bermuda to escape the | ne here Satu ols the pe Britis 1t in ollowin selia, nt Espagne tomorrow numbe of Warnings were rvieri for ca steamer 1r¢ sailed Genoa om , under the eed s reported she would pro- atjord n which dang hich for St for . for Havre; ensto Feariforc ior an n for left of 18 Pt left on it zone here John, Rouen; Rosali il line with | Liver- | I \Passengers and Crews { (NEWS FAILS T0 EXCITE; BY U-BOAT MENACE, Permitted to Take to Small Beats by Submarine Captains THIRTY AMERICANS ON BOARD STEPHANO All Loose Baggagze But Are Without Injury—Newport Leaders Throw Homes Open Suflicient Time to Permit Passen- rs to Escape. wit- of ik ik (oYsis L e of the torpedoing and freight steamers submarines Nantuck were told here today. to a report brought by flotilla of United States which picked up ews ¢ veral of oyed, e merc Newpork, s stories senger { German yesterday According office of a destroyer gers and c destr sunk oft t th 1ant v ships sels were One of been o red to be Wilson of Willic of the »posed visited another Mrs. stown, subm 6 the | to have the this ha was de enry 1 which he U-61 Mass., one of the v¢ sunk, officer several of the I that they had distinctly name U-61 on the su tacked their ship, Six vesscls are been sunk and total was nine w: ment of the captain of the Nantuc! shoal ip, near which the nlace, The captain that three submarines were en The list of submn victims ed four Briti and one Dutch vessel. of the three othe been lost had not toda The passenger id that crew seen the that at- an known to h that t a state- ve the report s based on at- said ged. tac took arine Norwegian identity have early one The reported been learned | elu to tha fromn British vessels fre West Point, ondon for ewport Strathdene, New X; the Kingston, ated and the D Stephano of sthe St. John's N. The Bloom Dutch, from New York Rotterdam Kirkwall the Chr Knudsen, a orwegian tanker, the hose identity own [he c wse of all these exception of the Kingston ht to this port 1y, he 83 passenger: nd were cared the Narragansett and nent the Newport summer No were bound News; for Bor- not mer > from ork. bound via York ination from v and are others with wers vessels, the brou with phano. ficers of Station tod by Bay the of- Naval promw membhe “olony. Lost. Iiv Lives belic and Kin no althou ston boats, mild A in open was probable would ued within some of the sseng »y was | return- nd t Americ Ne ma dian AlL thrc 1t can 1gh with of the injury Ame 1 11 1o: were but the om ables, down with ‘ommander the which e of said sub- 1l from this had lightship Tanded | Social | to | Refugees—All Agree U-Boats Gave | passen- | Stephano, | told | in- | been destroyed. At Least Three Submer ged Outside Three-Mile Limit---U. S. I} stroyers Pick Up Refugees and Bring Th to Shore---No Loss of Life Reported Commerce O Passengers and Crews Permitted to Seek Safety After Being Warned sibles Believed En Boston, Oct. 9.—German submarine warfare broug] to this side of the Atlantic Sunday was pursued relef lessly throughout the night. With the dawn came repo: of more vessels torpedoed and sunk, The captain of the Nantucket lightship reported t three German submarines were operating south and sou east of Nantucket and that a total of nine vessels h The identity of three of this number was unkno but ships from the American destroyer flotilla at Newpd were searching the seas for the crews that were suppos to have taken to their small boats. Rushing to give battle to the submarines, three Br ish cruisers were off Nantucket shoals at 2:40 o’clock t terday morning. The passengers and cre w of the Ked Cross steamer Stephano and the crews of the British freighter: and the Dutch and nk steamer Christian Knud- yesterday, dene gnd West Point ! freighter Bloomersdijk gian t n, destroyed were Strath- the Nor- land- {ed at Newport, R. L, today. The crew of the Kingston was missing but the men were life boats thirty Nantucket. Early today ! not been identified doubt in the minds | that one of the tion was the German U livered mail for the sador Count von port Saturday, and a lared to be the U-61 The belief is growin only one of a flotil submarine gathered vessels of the allies tral bottoms carrying ar. . Their i known have be ot Nantucket to ten mile Shipping at glaiid coast has great extent today a were reported m The but of Tsland off shore. harbo of under terrified war Ame The held tucket morning, na other steamer up by a at 5:30 arrived aid he to th West Point W not Boston. subm here had ponse om the his assistance proceeded to Tt Gery 1ssenger 1st rounded tucket when she fell submarine. The Steph ned at $400,000 Jaunched three yea ried- also richest prize csterday we liner Step: the east and South America $150,000. Begin at Dayl Submarine activities light Sunday. three Nantucket can steamer signalled to marine commander she was an American lowed her to proceed The sub the lights s stopped Strathdene, bound to Borde obeved orde submarine trathdene The raider of the Trans moved At 10 m ish steamer We Newport News. This was at a of the lightship the boats and the doed and sank ‘ No other vessel Juntil late in the aftern K n stov to ip wh e he sank patrolli Atlantic rably and cons 15 with point The h wa Bri engines for nations and contraband operations sen south and southe nd f Kansan, rine signals but a ano when ago. a cargo of cod fish oil con- signed to parties in the United States and valued to tl she hailed the London for | a warning shot. ten Point, sh th reported miles s0 the submarines sre the German Berns second tha Al C ports along the heen and h cing sudden eas craft hipping intere in the carrying of munitions of hipping not flying the which o’clock tod turned of rec bagged the o v end 3 v lightship when t was si When was at ve rine then moved in 1t British rom the N (e 1e s m ene n of at 50 findipg rine the steamer. freighter morning, to be in utheast of had | was no office destruc- which d amba at New- was de- t the f Ger ks far rom three New | eld up to vessels at for the on- had thor- ts en- W off Nan- yesterday | ay. Her back in distress that juired, he by the Red Cross which had of Nan- | rey to a was val- she was | She ¢ at he Amer ted th isfied sel he th 6 ¥ ew rew outhward 3rit- iles south v took to torpe- in 1 ix | nightship, stopped and crew sel sunk Near sunset Kingston came { lookout on the procedure was other ve! Kingston southeast of the i The bright marine a miles the the Stepha were the within followe 5S¢ nd at ent dc moonli bod ch tior dark stopped er Bloomersdijk south of th ope L 1 the Dutck m ontral the crew had little Knudse wa n don similarly the bottom. Thrae were The broadc n Kansan su cinity iminedi thé cre Throu destroyers hou ver eiving the sinkin vessels They loc of all the v destroyed, ¢ took them hdene hs relter on t The st mer tioned in maritime destination not to time o wboard d pre Ki was | aay. “Fly No tery hg Dutchmar the at the ms into T urday that he from Wilhelm in to mail ynstortt s dusk Rose, eve haven deep W ship subr 1B the 1 of the mitted her to difficult a voya controlled plies of any munitions fo & raide to thou ure. n in the center encountered | on. At 4:30 ' trade route from (Continued On southea Germa no. removed evenin that t morning. This was the first appearance of any warships the British and French patrolling fleet since the submarines began their attacks at 6 o’clock yd vicini of submal and Britigh viey submersible Passen the ramp st yound word of the rom ntuel from tf additiof survl known to ha ve Kingston, 1€ crew iously lightship. ton record known * of legendary “flying was the center or the cause of ation or lived true tion of being fore ine mishap; rine U- which matically Newp afternoon Han s0 much much the of 1 s0 runne droy her to nan - of been gi not mi and early 1916. Dutchm 1 S0 m| spel tra r s d| S| command teen days nd t throu ne ited to ed pogg h g and ene of s% Shippers of Atlantic th P the allies speculated v to the number of submar! the coast