SUBMARINE SCARES

Grey River Argus, 3 February 1917, Page 8

SUBMARINE SCARES

NEW YORK, November 27. The "Herald" sates on the authority of its Washington correspondent that the belief is growing that one of the objects of the frequent scares ox submarine appearances off the American Coast is to facilitate Stock Exchange operations, whereby high Genman officials may make heavy profits on market fluctuations. This statement is entirely in harmony with- the allegations made -a fortnight ago by Dr. Arbaard Carl Graves, the self- advertised German "spy," who was released after being Bernstorff. arrested on charges of attempting to blackmail Count and Countess von It is also stated from Washington that Mr. Gerard, who returns to Berlin to resume his duties as American Ambassador next week, will cany America's, last word on Germany's submarine policy. Tt is stated with confidence that thereafter there will_ be no exchange of Notes, President Wilson being determined to carry oiit his threat of a sevrance of diplomatic re- : latipns. which he made when the steamship Sussex was attacked, in theevent of Germany committing any further breaches of her undertakings in the United States. Rumours that German submarine^ iv^ro lurking off the coast of the United States were seized by operators on the New York Stock Market to-day a = an excuse for a somewhat reactionary tendency. Vessels arriving here, however, do not report having seen any suspicious craft.

A HEROINE Of THIRTEEN

LOXDOX, Novorabpr a=s A little g-irl of 13 apeared ;st the "Mansion House yesterday before th<? Lord Mayor of London, -o be pi<??eiitod with a gold wristlet -tht-g-ift of the Carnegie Hero Tru'-t Fui.d • — for a sreat act of heroism she oerformed during a Zeppelin raid. Sir William Trcloar told of now iio little heroine was sitting up -vith her grandmother, waiting for her ;i,nei f ? coming home, when the bombs ' v.ar to fall very near. At the cop f »I>r house the baby had been put M hv>_\. ' and though the stairs were ncK ; .!:s; and some of the steps had disappear- \ ed, the girl's first thought and act was to rush up and bring the infant down, but she somehow got through the wreckage into the street. Here in thf> excessive, darkness — all lights having been extinguished — she knelt j and prayed. She then made her vav to a hospital, where the baby was ta- , ken intq safe custody, and the surgeon o.n examining the girl found her bleeding and wounded, and a piece of glass was taken from her ear. It was indeed, said the Alderman, a most he. j roic thing that the girl Miad accomplished. | The Lord Mayor said such pluck by a girl of tender years must arouse n thrill of pride throughout the country. She had shown all these qualitib^ , which had produced in England the Florence Nightingale of" the present war. and her action, would be the admiration of the motherhood of the counry.