Submarine Call To Arms.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 10, 1913:
Officers and Men of Flotilla Get Hurry Orders to Go Aboard.
    NEWPORT, May 9.— Orders to return to their posts immediately were issued to-night to all the enlisted men of the first and second submarine flotillas, which are gathered in Narragansett Bay with nine battleships, in connection with mimic war manoeuvres.
    Officers of the submarines also were ordered back to their vessels, but were allowed until midnight to enjoy a ball which they were giving ashore. Notification to the enlisted men came in the form of summonses from theatre stages and by criers on the streets. The orders were entirely unexpected, and aroused much speculation among the men.
    It was learned that the first group of submarines would sail to-morrow morning under "sealed orders." The second group is under orders to be ready to proceed.

    WASHINGTON, May 9.— The hurry-up call for officers of the submarine fleet at Newport to return to their vessels was merely part of the general manoeuvres that the Navy Department has mapped out.