The Hawaiian gazette., 1917-04-03
Official Reports Received Of -Four
More Unwarned Attacks Made
against Merchant Ships BY
Kaiser's U-Boats In War Zone
GERMAN RAIDERS
WORK EXTENSIVE
Sea Adler Takes Heavy Toll From
Allies Nv Raider Differed BY
Pilots From lnterned German
Ships Now In American Ports
tAssOo.s.sd Pres. BY Federal wireless,

(ABsociated Press BY Federal Wireless)
- = AsHINGToN, April -Four
Nv vessels with Americans aboard
w have been sunk by German
submarines during the past few
days, according to official reports
which have reached the state de.
partment in consular reports. In the
destruction of these four ships, each
lof which was the victim of an un.
warned attack, FIVE Americans are
known to have been killed, with the
possibility that a larger number per
ished.
One of the ships sunk was an armed
British steamer, the Eptafalos of 2S17
tons, which was bound from Malta for
Gibraltar in ballast. The gun crew
aboard had no opportunity to use their
weapons Of defense, the submarine dis
charging her torpedo before she was
even sighted. After the explosive had
sorn hole in the vessels hull and the
srew had left in the small boats, the
Iubmarine emerged and Captain Winter
vas taken on the underwater craft as
prisoner, together with the first and
eeond officers, the four engineers and
he members Of the gun crew. Then
lie steamer was sunk by shell fire.
There was no loss of life IN this case.
The British steamer Crispin, also
armed, was torpedoed off Minehead,
| Ireland. The torpedo struck the vessel
opposite the engine room, the explosion
lxilling two of the American members
Iof the crew. Eighteen others Of the
ships company are messing, including
| ,everal Americans. The Crispin was a
Booth liner, bound from Newport News
to British port. 4. g..
Portuguese Ship Sunk =
| The Portuguese ship Argo, with q
general cargo from New Oorleans t.
london, was the third victim, She was
shslled by submarine showing thu
German flag, the attack taking place
three hundred miles off GraveseDd
three Americans being missed. 'rhi
attack took place on Monday and thu
survivors of the attack were exposed
to the elements for four days, during
which they attempted to make land il
heir small boats. The submarine com
mander made no effort to help.
i The British steamer Snowdon Range
i 1889 tons, was the fourth ship to SIM
lfter an unwarncd attack, from Ger
nan submarine, four of her crew killeC
| by the explosion of the tropedo. Non
IF her dead, so far as is known, i
American. ~" 49,.
Lnternes On Raider @....s
i The German raider which has bee
treating havoc in Shipping condition
n Trinidad, has been identified as tn
Sea Adler, II name which does not ap
Dear in the shipping registers an,
which may have been given to cap
,ured American bark, the Pass o
3almaha, which have been taken int
Hamburg 49,.
The raider, according to advice
brought to Rio de Janeior by member
of the crews of the ships which hav
fallen victim to her, is commanded b
German officers, pilots from some o
the German converted cruisers now il
termed in American ports. .~5.-..
| According to the crew Of the Sc
Adler, the vessel skipped through tn
British North Sea patrol and made he
way into the South Atlantic ever
circuitous route. So far she has d.
stroyed eleven ships, mostly sailin
vessels flying the British and Frenc
nags. ~.