Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-09-05 | Page 5 | [Illegible] Watch on New Submarines

KEEPING WATCH ON NEW SUBMARINES essels Built Here for Great Britain Will Not Be Delivered Until War Ends. QUINCY., Mass., Sept. 4. Officers of le United States navy will be detailed l board the ten submarines recently instructed at the yards of the Fore iyer Shipbuilding corporation for the ritish government after the boats leave (e shipyard. In a formal statement is-led is-led today J. W. Powell, president of ie corporation, said: The department has consented to detail these officers so that all question ques-tion as to the possibility of the removal re-moval of the boats from this country coun-try to the possession of a belligerent belliger-ent during the war is eliminatecf. It has further been arranged that when the boats are completed they will be sent to the Boston navy yard, where they will remain until snch time as a disposition satisfactory to all parties can be arranged." Navy department officials will look to published reports that ten Ameri-in-built submarines have crossed the tlantic under their own power and )w are with the allied fleets. Secretary Daniels has been assured 1st the foreign submarines being built ; Quincy will not be delivered during e war. He expressed the belief todav At it would even be a violation of mtrality for the constructor to knock em down and reassemble the parts in tother country.