Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-08-13
GERMAN RAIDER
IS LIKELY SUNK
Destroyer Attacks Submarine
off Virginia Coast and 1t
Fails TO Reappear.
U.B0AT ATTACKS WITH GAS
Six Men Are Overcome at
Lighthouse off North
Carolina Coast.
FIRST EFFORT ON PERSONS
Attempt to Kill Is New Form
of Frightfulness; More
Ships Torpedoed.
U.BoAT ATTACKS WITH GAS
FIRST EFFORT ON PERSONS

WASHINGTON, Aug i2.--Gas
from oil discharged on the water by
she German submarine operating Off
the middle Atlantic coast oyercame
six men In the coast guard station
and lighthouse on smiths Island, y.
g. saturday evening. the navy de-
partment WAS advised today by the
com mAndnnt Of the sixth naval DIS
trict
II the gas attack was deliberate.
n most officials believed it consti-
tuted a new and ingenious form OF
''friKhtfuinsSs" and so far AZ has
been reported, WIS the first direct
effort OF the German raidcu 70 harm
persons or properly on American
horses.
The gas was said by tho cammand-
ant OF tho coast guard station TO nave
much the same effect Rs the mus
tard gas used by the Germans on
the western front The men were
laid out for more than half an hour
but apparently suffered no serious
after effects
The dispatch relating 10 tho gas
attack was one Of a series concern
ing German submarine warfare or
the Atlantic coast received during
the day by tho navy department one
told Of an attack on submarine one
hundred miles east OF tho Virginia
coast by an American destroyer
which discharged II arpth charges
where the raider was seen 20 sub
merge. The result OF the attack was
not determined. but after oil had
appeared on the surface OF the
water, two bomhs were dropped on
the spot and the submarine was not
seen again.
sinking Of tho British steamer
PenIstone Of 4.i3s tons, and the
Swedish steamer Sydland OF 3,OSl
kro,. tons. In New England waters
near Whare ten fishing anacks we're
Destroyed sunday. also was reported
e ttt navy department during tho
Sey The former was torpedoed
S1neay. with tho fate OF her crew
stiii undstermined. whfio the latter
was destroyed by bombs August
and hef7crew later rescued by pasas-
Ing ships Still another dispatch said
that four survivors OF tho fishing
schooner Katie Palmer landed NJ
New Bedford. Msss.. reported that
they had been taken aboard tho sub
marine, the commander Of which
boaStcd that he was equipped 20 re-
maiR In American waters for six
mOhfha II nc deHlred.
Tho submarine was described by
tho mon as being about three hun
dred feet long with coming tower
rs feet high, and mounting ono gun.
'rhe raider carried q crew OF sixty
mon. according 20 the survivors, who
were held aboard the ubmersible
FOR a time and later set adrift In a
dory.
while tAe reports from tho com
nandants of tho Smiths Island coast
guard station and Sixth naval dis
trfct clearly indicated their firm be-
lief that the gas attack On tho island
was deliberate. some officers to-
night thought there was a possibility
that the submarine had discharged
tho oil and gas after being wrecked
on n reef
Attention was called 90 the fact
that the action Of salt water on cleo
trio batteries used by submarines
generates chlorine gas, which is sim
liar 10 mustard gas IN its effect. and
Is deadly II encountered In closed
space II the submarine were
wrecked. Il was said this gas would
be generated and would como to the
surfaco with the oil which would bo'
frsed.