We have dealt at length elsewhere with the situation that
has arisen owing to the sudden outbreak of submarine activity off the coast of the United States. Here we must briefly chronicle the fact that on Saturday last the German submarine ' U53 ' put into Newport, Rhode Island, after a seventeen days' voyage, and left after three hours' stay. On Sunday morning the submarine was reported to have been at work off the United States coast. By Tuesday we had learned what this meant. Some nine vessels had been sunk off the Nantucket Lightship, just outside Newport, Rhode Island. One vessel was Dutch, one Norwegian, and the others British. Details have not yet come to hand, but it appears that the ships were fired at without warning. Thirty-four Americans were on board one of the vessels, but there seems to have been no loss of life on the part of passengers or crews.
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