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Show DEUTSCHLAND OFF TANGIER SOUND German Merchant Submarine Headed Toward Capes arid Going at High Speed. AEROPLANES WATCHING No Word From the Bremen Sister Ship Expected at Any Time New Boats Building. Newport News, Va., Aug. 2. The Deutschland was reported off Thimble Thim-ble Shoals lighthouse, about four or five miles from Fortress Monroe, at 4 o'clock. She seemed to be heading for Fortress Monroe. Cape Henry, Va Aug. 2. The German Ger-man merchant submarine Deutschland had not been sighted here at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, twenty-one hours after she left Baltimore on her return trip to Germany. Marine men believed the boat had stopped somewhere some-where up Chesapeake baj', as not more than seventeen hours would have been necessary for her to make the trip here even at a moderate rate of speed. The last report from the vessel came at 6:30 o'clock this morning when she was sighted at Tangier Island, 60 miles up the bay. At that hour sho was under way and was attended at-tended by the tug Thomas F. Tim-mins. Tim-mins. The last report from the vessel came at J3:30 o'clock this morning when she was sighted at Tangier Island, 60 miles up the bay. At that hour she was under way and was attended at-tended by the tug Thomas F. Tim-mins. Tim-mins. Shortly after noon today a two-Tunneled warship came near the three-mile three-mile line for a short time but later put back to sea. Only one allied warship war-ship has been sighted off here during the day. Newport -NewsL, Va,, Aug. 2. The German merchantsubmarine Deutschland Deutsch-land was sighted off Tangier Sound at C o'clock this morning. She was still headed toward the lower bay at a high rate of speed. Tangier Sound is about 75 miles above the capes. Two aeroplanes wore seen flying over lower Chesapeake bay at Hampton Hamp-ton Roads shortly after daybreak this morning. They were not from the Atlantic coast aeronautical station hero. It is believe they came from the armored cruiser North Carolina on neutrality patrol off the Virginia capes. The machines maneuvered back and forth over the water at a moderate altitude. No Word From Bremen. Baltimore. Aug. 2. No word has been heard from the . Bremen, the Deutschland's sister ship, since it left Bremerhaven, according to Paul G. L. Hllken, a member of the Eastern East-ern Forwarding company, the American Ameri-can agents of the Deutschland. Purely as a guess, Mr. Hllken said today, the Bremen may arrive at Bal- lltrinr :inv limp nftpr fnmnrrnw Hfi did not know the date on which she left the German port He admitted that preparations were going on at Locust Point pier just vacated by the Deutschland to receive another submarine. sub-marine. Mr. Hllken also said his company com-pany had cargo stored In every large port on tho Atlantic seaboard. Mr. Hilken talked concerning the line of submarine merchantmen which the Deutsche Ozean Rhederei builders and owners of the Deutschland Deutsch-land and Bremen propose to establish between Germany and America. One cf the submerslbles of the line will he named the America, he said, and smother will be called the Baltimore, Passengers arrived today on an Old Dominion liner from New York reported report-ed when the ship approached the Virginia Vir-ginia Capes only one foreign warship was sighted. They told of seeing an object lying low In the water with two masts visible, toward which the foreign for-eign cruiser w"as heading. It looked like two huge buoys with masts above and some of the passengers , thought it might be supporting a net. It lay just outside the three-mile limit where the channel is narrow. Fortress Monroe, Va., Aug. 2. Eigh-teen Eigh-teen hours after the German submarine subma-rine Deutschland sailed from Baltimore Balti-more on her return voyage to Germany, Ger-many, she had not been sighted from the Virginia Capes or in Hampton Roads and nothing had been heard from her since 6:30 o'clock this morning, morn-ing, when she was reported off Tangier Tan-gier sound about 60 miles up Chesapeake Chesa-peake bay. Although last night she was said to be making 15 knots, she apparently has not been proceeding since at a much slower rate of speed. On the trip up the bay after her arrival on the capes only 17 hours was required for the run from Hampton JRoads to Baltimore. Much surprise was occasioned here by reports brought by passengers on an incoming coastwise steamer that only one allied warship was on guard today off the capes. |