Arizona republican., 1917-08-02

submarines astern which were grow ing fainter The B. then was sent to g,ord tho rear of the convoy.
 "F,ipht-When I was in Paris l was shown hv the U. s. naval attache confidential official bulletin Of lnfor- nation issued by the general sta1l dated JnIv which contained the 1ol- lowing:
 "'Punta Delgada, Azores, was poiii harded at a. m. July I. ms lS uii doubtedly the submarine Whlch at tackled the E@ on June zo' ny miles north of the Azores ana saitn the F- and G. on the z'th ol June, 100 miles from Tercelra ,Alo, es). This submarine was oroeieu oo watch in the vicinity of the A|o'o9, , at such a distance as it was supposed the enemy American convoy "o' pass c,,
 "Nine-It appears from the rieiiI" -enort ouoted above that enemy sup narinas had been notified of our ap- proach and were probably scouting across our route. It is possible that they may have trailed us all day on June g as our speed was well within heir limits of surface speed and they .ould have easily trailed our smohe under the weather conditions without heinz seen: their failure to score nlts was Drohablv due to the attack peihS precipitated by the fortuitous clrcuih- stances of the flagship's helm Jalh- ming and the sounding of her WhlstIe; leading the enemy to suppose he hao nnen discovered.
 "Ten-The H- leading the seco group. encountered two submarines, the first about 50 a. m June 26, 1917 in latitude - N, longitude - w. about 100 miles off the coast of France and the second two honrs later The I-- investigated the waFe of the first without further discovery The J. sighted the bow wave on the second at distance Of l.5e0 yards and headed for it at speed of g knots. The gun pointers at the forward gun saw the periscope sever al times for several seconds, but 1t disappeared each time before they could get on, due to the zig zagging of the ship The J. passed about g years ahead of a mass of bubbles which were coming up from the wake and let go a depth charge just ahead. Several pieces of timber, quantities of oil bubbles and debris came to the surface. Nothing more was seen of the submarine. The attacks on t4c second group occurred about 500 miles to the eastward of where the attacks had been made on the first group
 "Eleven-the voyage of the third group was uneventful.
 "Twelve-in the forenoon of 2S June, when in Iat.-N, long.-W, the K opened fire on an object about three hundred yards distant which he thought was a submarine The con- mander of the group did not concur in this opinion, but the reports sub seuuertly received from the command ing officer of the Rand Lieutenant " are too circumstantial to permit the incident to be ignored. The com manding officer states:
 "'The only unusual incident of the trip worth mentioning was on the ZSth day of June. about 10:05 a. m. The lookouts reported something right ahead of the K q had the bridge at the time) when I looked I saw what appeared to be very small object 1 on the waters surface, about foot 1 or two high which left a small wake; i on looking closer and with the aid of binoculars I could make out a shape under the water about 250 to 300 yards ahead and which was too large to be a black fish, lying in a position about 1 15 degrees diagonally across the Ks course.
 "I ordered the port bow gun to fire l on the spot in the water and sounded warning siren for convoy; when judg- ing that the ship had arrived abou the spot first seen, I ordered righ
 rudder in order to leave the submarine