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Show clislir SUBMARINE ATTACK ORDERS SAID TO HAVE BEEN ISSUED IS-SUED TO CEASE UNDERSEA WARFARE FOR PRESENT. Alleged Change of Policy of the Ger man Government Made Pending Outcome of Negotiations With the United States. New York. Orders suspending submarine operations against merchant mer-chant vessels have been Issued by the German government pending the outcome of negotiations regarding the representations made by this government govern-ment in President Wilson's note, according ac-cording to a Washington dispatch to the Times on May 18. The Times says the information was obtained in "a well informed quarter," after cable press dispatches had said a German submarine fired a torpedo at the liner Transylvania on her trip from New York to Glasgow, Glas-gow, ended Monday. It was said at this source that information about the Transylvania "could not be correct (or the reason that submarine activity activ-ity had been discontinued by the German Ger-man government." It was not disclosed, the Times' dispatch dis-patch says, whether the new orders require that there are to be no attacks at-tacks by German submarines on freight vessels of nations at war with Germany when they are supposed to ' tarry war supplies and have no passengers pas-sengers on board, but the dispatch says it is the understanding that the order will apply to all merchant vessels, ves-sels, belligerent as well as neutral. The order, it was said, was issued about a week ago, but the supposition is it has not been announced officially. offi-cially. It is pointed out that since the day following the sinking of the Lusitania only one German submarine attack on a merchant ship has been recorded. This was on May 15, or about a week after the Lusitania disaster, the steamer being the Martha, a Danish craft, sunk off Aberdeen, and that in this case all the members of her crew were saved. |
