UNITED STATES ALERT.
STRINGENT PRECAUTIONS TAKEN. GERMANS EFFECTUALLY MUZZLED. [Australian and n.z. cable association, t Received this day at 9.10 a.pi. M'iW YOiUv, October 1«. Foll'dwiiig' yesterday’s discussion in the blouse of Lords cm the U.’kl activities, the Washington G/vammeut jlunoiinces that most f tnngent precautions are being taken to prevent the transmission of uuneut.nl information to German submarines appearing, in American ports. Civ.bans probably will not be permitted to visit such submarines owing to the growing belief that civilians host.ding the lib-’) revealed details bt the presence of merchantmen in the vicinity .of Nantucket. The Administration officials believe (hat no complications will a. ise with England in connection v. i(h Americas submarine attit de, as the regulations will prevent the Germans using American ports to secure information, and this wd] seriously hamper submarine coastal operations on America’s and the Allies’ shipping.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19161019.2.27.10
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1916, Page 5
Word Count
142UNITED STATES ALERT. Greymouth Evening Star, 19 October 1916, Page 5
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.