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Show GERMAN U-BOAT Ifl UJ. WATERS SUBMARINE PRIMED FOR BATTLE BOBS UP ON THE ATLANTIC COAST WITHOUT WARNING. Delivered Message for German Ambassador, Am-bassador, Weighed Anchor and Disappeared Beneath Waters Inside In-side Three-Mile Limit. Newport, R. 1. Seventeen days from Wilhclmshaven, the imperial German submarine dropped anchor ir Newport harbor Saiurday. Almost be fore the officers of the American fleet of warships, through which the stranger had nosed her way, had re covered from their astonishment, the undersea fighter had delivered a mes sage for the German ambassador and weighing anchor, turned Brenton's reef lightship and disappeared beneath the waters just inside the three-mile limit. As she came and went, she flew the black and white colors of the Germac navy, a gun was mounted on the for ward deck and another aft, while eighl torpedoes plainly were visible unde) the forward deck, giving mute assur ance that the warship was ready foi a fight, at the drop of the hat. Lieutenant Captain Hans Rose, whe hung up a new world's record in bringing an armed submarine in bat tie array across the Atlantic, said that he had called at Newport simpls to mail a letter to Count von Bern-storff. Bern-storff. He required neither provisions nor fuel and would be on his way, he said, long before the twenty-foui hours during which a belligerent ship may remain within a neutral harboi had expired. The submarine was in American waters a little more than three hours, assuming that she continued to sea after submerging. |