Ogden Daily Standard | 1917-03-09 | Page 1 | German Raider in Atlantic

GERMAN RAIDER tl INJTLMIC American Captain Reports Suspect in Sea Lane From N. Y. to Mediterranean. SIGHTS STRANGE VESSEL U-Boat Captain Spares U. S. Vessel Loaded With Cotton Off Scilly Islands. New York. March 9 The presence ! of a vessel suspected as a German H raider in the sea lane travelled by ships running between New York and Mediterranean ports was reported H bv Captain D- M. Nicoll of the Amer. i ican steamship Suruga, which arrived here todav Irom Havre and the Aor Captain Nicoll said that when the Suruga was north of the Azores on Februarv 20. in the direct track of the New York-Mediterranean trade, he sighted a strange vessel which steam i ed around the Suruga. stopped and ' then bore off in a new direction. The I stranger was of the cargo type, a I j large vessel with two masts, armed with a stern gun and other pieces, painted gray and carried a funnel j which did not parallel the masts She did not learn her identity. U-Boat Spares Americans. j I While at Havre, Captain Nicoll met : the master of the American steamship City of Memphis, New York to Havre with cotton, who told him of an experience with a submarine off J jthe Scilly Islands on January 30. The J U-boat sent a shot across the Amer-' Amer-' ican's deck as a signal to stop and i tho American, after obeying, sent a mate abroad the submarine with the merchantman's papers. The U boat captain was quoted as telling the City of Memphis' mate: "You've got a contraband cargo. I ought to sink your ship, but on account of friendly j relations between the United States and Germany I'm going to let you