Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-11-04 | Page 1 | Deutschland Not to be Convoyed

DEUTSCHLAND NOT TO BE CONVOYED Reports That U-57 Is Here to Guard Merchant Submarine Not Confirmed. Washington, Nov. 4. Reports that the Deutschland will bo convoyed back to Germany by the war submarine U-57 have not been confirmed here officially and in some quarters such a step is regarded as improbable as it has contended that a convoyed ship takes on the war-like character of her convoy and cannot claim the Immunities Im-munities of a peaceful merchantman. Whether the visit of a second war submarine might bo taken by the state department as offering opportunity oppor-tunity to request Germany not to conduct con-duct bplligerent operations In the immediate im-mediate neighborhood of the American Ameri-can coast is in tho hands of Secretary Secre-tary Lansing who will be at his home at Watertown, N. Y., until after election.