The Elbert County tribune., 1918-06-07
REPORTS OF SURVIVORS SHOW
TWO SUBMARINES TOOK PART
IN ATTACKS.
MORE ATTACKS BY HUNS
REPORT BY SECRETARY DANIELS
LISTS SEVEN scHooNERs AND
FOUR sTEAME-3 AS LOST.

rare to the shores or the United
States, apparently in forlorn hope
of striking telling blows on this side
of tie Atlant' and of drawing home
some of the American naval forces
from tie wrr zone where the U-boat
menace is being slowly but surely
strangled to death.
In the attacks upon coasting yes
sells almost in sight OF the New Jer-
sey shore. navy officials see frantic
| admission from Berlin that the sub
marine has failed. American armed
power is rolling overseas In ever-in-
creasing force, despite the utmost ex-
ertions of the undersea pirates off the
coast of Europe.
Now the raiders have crossed tho
seas and lurked for days near Amer
ica's greatest ports. They no doubt
were sent to sink transports, but here
again they failed. Blocked off the
Lave turned in fury against defense
less coasters. In all the record of
destruction they have written. the
raiding party has struck at no vessels
bound overseas. and therefore armed
for fight. Only ships that could no.
hit back have been attacked.
New York, June 5.-The toll of
dead and missing from the raid of Ger
man submarines against shipping off
the American coast Sunday apparent
ly stood last night at fifty-eight. all
from the steamship Carolina OF the
New York and Porto Rico line. Six
teen of this number are known to
have persisted when one Of the ships
boats capsized in storm Sunday
night after the vessel had been sunk.
Washington, June ENEMY sub
marines still were operating off the
American coast Tuesday A French
tank steamer, the Radioleine, first
transatlantic craft to be attacked by
the raiders, was saved from destruc-
ton at $3.50 o'clock Tuesday morning
by an American destroyer sixty-five
miles off the Maryland coast.
The same destroyer found the coast.
ing schooner, Edward r. Baird, Jr..
cinking after having been bombed In
the same vicinity, making seven
schooners and four steamers known
officially to have beer sunk by the
raid srs
Announcement by the Navy Depart
ment of these facts later disclosed
that the raid in American waters had
not ended with Mondays tale Of de-
ctruction, upsetting the theory that
the raiders probably were speeding
HON award. Coast patrol vessels had
not acted from theory. They are now
closing in from all directions on the
scene OF tho raiders last exploit.
securing tie sea for further trace OF
enemy U-boats as they come.
Secretary Daniels directed that the
brief report from the destroyer be
made public. The destroyer herself,
with two survivors from the Baird, q
279-ton craft hailing from Wilmington,
Del. was still hunting for the enemy.
The announcement follows:
THE Navy Department has re-
| ceived dispatch from a United
| States destroyer that at $3.50 O'Clock
Tuesday morning she interrupted an
attack by an enemy submarine on the
French steamer Radioleine about six
ty-five miles off the Maryland coast
The destroyer also took on board two
men from the Edward r. Baird, which
was bombed and sinking A later re-
port was received stating that the Ra-
diolelne had arrived at an Atlantic
port"
the U-boats, as given out tonight at
the Navy Department, included seven
schooners and four steamers. The
statement follows:
THE latest report received by the
Navy Department indicate that the fol-
lowing vessels have been sunk as a re-
suit Of enemy submarine activity off
this coast: Schooner Edna. 325 tons;
schooner Hattie Dunn, 436 tons;
schooner Hauppauge, 1900 tons;
schooner Edward H. Cole, 1.791 tons;
schooner Isabel B. Wiley, 776 tons;
schooner Jacob M. Haskell, 1,77s tons;
steamship Winnieconne, 1869 tons;
steamer Carolina. 5,O39 tons; schooner
Edward R. Baird, Jr.. 279 tons; steam
ship Herbert L. Pratt, 1900 tons,
raised and towed to port; steamship
Texel."
Reports from survivors who were
aboard the vessels also established the
fact that during the, day at least two
submarines have been at work in
American waters. They are the U-37
and the U-151, and report to the
Navy Department shows that one of
them had stores to last three months.
The picking up of floating mine
off the Jersey coast was announced by
the Navy Department. Undoubtedly It
was dropped by one of the enemy u
boats. Possibly the raider was closely
pursued and thought to lay trap for