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Show GERMANS SCOFF AT SUBMARINE SCARES Declare Maine's Summer Visitors Are Trying to Rob the Sea Serpent of Prerogatives. BERLIN, May 26, via London. May 27, 10:50 a. m. The Associated Press was informed in-formed today by officials of the German foreign office that no German naval forces had recently been dispatched across the Atlantic. A rumor that a German submarine was at present in American waters was dismissed as a "probable invention of early summer visitors vis-itors to the Maine coast resorts who are endeavoring to deprive the familiar sea serpent of its prerogatives." There have been frequent reports of German submarine activity 'on the Atlantic At-lantic seaboard. On April 17 the American Ameri-can destroyer Smith was said to have narrowly escaped a torpedo fired by a German submarine east of Fire island. More recently it was reported that German Ger-man U-boats had been sighted off the Maine coast. |