Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1918-06-07
TWO MORE SHIPS
SUNK BY U-BOATS
OFF u. S. COAST
American Schooner and Nor
wegial Ship Victims.
BOTH CREWS ARE RESCUED
"Don't Use Your Wireless and We
Won't Shoot" Is Newest "Made IN
Germany" War SIogau-More
Survivors From Caro-
lima Arrive.

Washington, June 6.-Sinking by a
German submarine of the Norwegian
steamer GIBBS, 40 miles off the Vir-
Ginia capes on Tuesday afternoon, was
reported to the navy department y a
naval cargo ship. The entire crew
was rescued.
New York, June 6.-The American
auxiliary schooner Samuel G. Mengel
is. another victim of submarine attack.
1t was sunk Sunday afternoon Ia
miles off New York, and eleven men
of its crew were brought here by a
Danish steamship. (This is the twelfth
victim of the raiders.)
The Mengel, according to the crew,
was on her way to New York with
cargo from the West African coast.
The vessel was sunk by bombs after
the men had taken to the boats at the
command of the U-boat commander.
Vessel Of 915 Tons.
The Mengel was a, vessel Of 915
gross tons, was built in 1916 at Bath.
Me-, her owners of record being the
AKIN Transportation company.
Don't use your wireless and we
won't shoot Is the newest made IN
Germany" war slogan under which the
emperor's submarine commanders are
carrying their campaign of frightful-
ness into American Atlantic waters,
according to persons among POO sur
vivors of the steamship Carolina who
were brought TO this port aboard a
coastwise schooner early today. The
Carolina was destroyed by U-boat gum
fire fifty miles off the Delaware capes
on Sunday evening.
Stories told by passengers and crew
of the sunken vessel indicated that |
Edwin w. Vogel of New York city, |
the ships nineteen-year-old chief wire |
less operator, played spectacular
part in the drfmatic raiding of the |
Carolina.
When the submarine messaged the
You no wireless-we don't shoot
Vogei detiantly repeated his IS. O. S"
signals, which he had already begun
flashing and was on the verge of an-
Swerng queries from Cape May and
the Brooklyn navy yard stations for
the Cardinals position when Capt. T.
r. y. Barbour, Vogels commander, or
dered him TO quit his key and see
whether the Germans would keep their
pledge, passengers declared.
Capt. Barbour said he decided to |
accept the proposition laid down by
the U-boat skipper, because he he
lieved dissent would have meant for
fixture of the lives of the women and
children aboard the vessel.
Eighteen other survivors from the
Carolina arrived in New York during
the night by train from Lewes De'a-
ware. In the party were ten passen- |
gers and eight of the crew. All had
been supplied with clothing by THE
Red Cross and bore no resemblance to /
a group of survivors. They would have
passed unnoticed except for the fact
that naval officers accompanied them
and piloted them to an uptown hotel,
where they retired Immediately.
Navy After invaders.
Washington. June 6.-ConcentratiOn
of American naval forces off the Mary
land coast followed the receipt of adj
vices by the navy department that
German undersea craft, having sunk
probable total of ten vessels Off the
New Jersey shore, had transferred the
scene of their depredations further
south. Just as naval officials had con-
cluded that the German raiders had
left American waters for their home
port there came the news that a
French tank steamer, the Radioleine,
was saved from destruction early
Tuesday by an American DESTROYER
slXty-tive miles off the Maryland coast.
The same dispatch brougl- the news
that another schooner, the Edward
Baird, Jr., had been added TO the list
of submarine victims.
The Baird was found in a sinking
condition by the destroyer, which took
ion board two of the schooner's sur.
vivors, The Baird was a vessel of 27n
tons, hailing from Wilmington, Del
First Attack on Overseas Liner.
In attacking the French tanker RI.
dioleine Che German raiders made
their first attempt to sink a tranSot-
lantie vessel. The navy Department
dispatch stated that the Radtoleine
was later reported as having reached
an American port