Bisbee daily review., 1917-08-05

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4.-Details of the attacks by German submarines upon the first expedition of American troops sent to France became known for the first time this week when the report of Rear Admiral Gleayes, com manding the naval convoy, was made public by Secretary Daniels. The first attack was made on Admiral Gleaves' flagship, leading the first group of the expeditionary force and at least two submarines were indicated to be en. gagged. The admiral stated the belief that the U-boats had heard of the com ing of the troop ships and were on watch for them.
 The second group of transports also was attacked by two submarines, one of which apparently was sent to the bottom by a bomb dropped from an American destroyer There is dis agreement among officers of the third group as to whether they were attack ed, but much of the evidence indicat- ed that they were also assailed.
 Secretary Daniels made the report public with certain military informa- tion deleted after he had sent an un- censored copy in confidence to the senate naval committee, members of which recently inquired as to the truth of charges in the senate that the ofl- cial account of the attack published on July was greatly exaggerated.
 Text of Report - The report was prepared by Admirai Gleaves while at French port and was submitted to Admiral Mayo, in command of the Atlantic fleet, who for warded it to the navy department. Its full text as made public follows:
 ''One-About 1:5o p. m., June 22, the first group of the expeditionary force, of which the flagship was the leader, encountered the enemy's submarines in Lat. - N, Long. w.
 ''Two-At the time it was extremely dark, the sea was unusually phosphor- escent, a fresh breeze was blowing from the northwest broke the sea into white caps. The condition was ideal for submarine attack.
 "Three-(P Paragraph given the for nation and names of the vessels, to- gether with the speed they were mak- ing and method of proceeding, noth- ing else. It is therefore omitted for obvious reasons.)
 White Streak Seen
 'Four-Shortly before the attack the helm of the flagship had been jammed and she tcok a rank sheer to star board; the whistle was blown to indi- cate this sheer. In few minutes the ship was brought back to the course. At this time the officer on the deck and others on the bridge saw white streak about 30 yards ahead of the ship, crossing from starboard to port at right angles to our course. The ship was immediately run off 90 de grees to starboard at full speed. I was asleep in the chart house at the time. I heard the officer of the deck say, Report to the admiral a torpedo has crossed our bow When l reached the bridge the A. and one of the transports astern had opened the formers shell fitted with tracers. Other vessels of the convoy turned to the right and left, in accordance with instructions. B. crossed our bow at full speed and turned towards the left column in the direction of the firing.
 Ship Is Attacked
 "Fifth-At first it was thought on board the flagship that the wake was that of torpedo but from subsequent reports from other ships and in the opinion of Lieutenant K, who was on the bridge, it was probably the wake of the submarine boat itself. Two tor pedoes passed close to the A. from port to starboard, one about 90 yards ahead of the ship and the other under her stern, as the ship was turning to