Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1916 — Nameless Notes Tell of Danger to U. S. Passengers. [ARTICLE]

Nameless Notes Tell of Danger to U. S. Passengers.

New York, Fe.b 21.—American citizens who have booked passage on the French liner Espagne, scheduled to sail from New York for Bordeaux France, Feb. 24, have received anony-mous-letters calling attention to the proposed new submarine policy announced by Germany and warning them not to embark, according to officials of the British consulate here today. Mrs. Banker Hilton, of this city, who plans to sail on the Espagne, declared tonight that she had received a letter, typewritten in black ink on yellow paper, which read:

“Madame: It i 6 understood that you intend to sail within the next few days, upon the steamship Espagne for Bordeaux, France. You are doubtless fully aware of the intended submarine policy which is to come into effect any day. and which will be carried out rigorously, irrespective of the nationality of persons upon the vessel attacked. Therefore assuming that you are aware of the danger you afe to subject yourself to you are requested to receive this warning as definite and unquestionably necessay and which you are requested not to question but to accept for the aafety of yourself and that of your family-” Mrs. Milton turned over the missive to the British authorities here. At the British consulate it was said that similar letters to others who had booked passage on the Espagne .ad been forwarded to the consulate.