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Show ITALIAN STEAMER ESCAPES SUBMARINE NEW YORK, April 19. After being chased, half the length of the Mediterranean, Mediter-ranean, the Italian steamer America arrived ar-rived here today from Naples with 1251 passengers. On April 6, while steaming through the Mediterranean, a wireless message was received from a British patrol boat that a submarine was operating oper-ating In the vicinity. The commander of the America changed, his course and steamed for the coast of Spain. Keeping In touch -with shore stations, the officers of the America, by constant change of course, Anally succeeded in eluding the underwater craft off the coast of Algiers and escaped to the open sea. |