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Show GERMAN SCHEME TO GET SUPPLIES Elaborate Organization, by Which Cordon of Submarines Subma-rines Obtained Food, Unearthed. MADRID. March 12. (Correspond ence of The Associated Press) An elaborate organization, by which a cordon cor-don of German submarines, nroand tlu-Spanish tlu-Spanish and Portuguese coasts has been furnished supplies, has been un earthed, a rigid censorship has been established, but it is known that at least four men have been arrested, one of whom was supposed to have been an American, but later proved to be a German Lines of automobiles wre run from Madrid to certain coast points by the plotters to avoid using the regular train service. Floating depots were established beyond the limits of Spanish Span-ish waters. These consisted of wood en floats about the size of a fisher man's dory. A coast guard patrol boat discovered one of these depots as G number of men were busy re-stocking it, and after a battle captured several prisoners According to information gathered by the Spanish secret police on the number of German submarine employ ed in the German patrol, the peninsula cordon is a link in a great chair stretching from the Baltic to the Med iterranean. one submarine baing allot ted to every 10 miles. Eacn of the undersea boats is supposed to be abl to sail ten miles in an hour and thut kepp in close touch with its neigh bors in the line. rr |