Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1918-08-28
SUBMARINES ARE BUSY.
Get In Some Heavy Work on 10th
Sides of tho Water.

aSnlnStOn, Aug. 23.-S1nklnS or
three American vessels in foreign
waters by German submarines was
| announced to-day by the Navy De-
partment. The steamship Lake
Edon. an army chartered transport,
was sunk on August 21; the u SIS.
Westbridge, of $500 tons, or Au-
gust 1G, and the U.S.S. Cubore, Of
1900 tons, on August 10.
Sixteen Of the crew of the Lake
Gdon are missing, 80 having been
accounted for. The names of the
missing have not been reported to
| the Navy Department.
Three men were reporte, lost in
the sinking Of the WestDriGee. There
| was no loss Of life among the crew
Of the Cubore
Diomed Sent Down.
New York, Aug 23.-Shelled and
| torpedoed by big German subma-
| rine just at sunrise Wednesday, the
British freighter Diomed was sunk,
with the loss of two of her crew and
woundtng Of many others, 1875 miles
east Of New York. OF the 1O4 survi-
vors. including number of Chinese
! seamen, rescued and brought here by
another ship, many had been cut by
, shrapnel and scalded by steam when
torpedo crashed through the boiler
room. Though attacked without
ho n;<,,r,lja
swered the German fire, but without
I effect. After their twelfth shot at
, the U-boat, one Of the submersible's
! shells disabled the freighter's steer
ing gear. The raiders commander
then supplanted gunfire with tor
pedo. AS the projectile tore amid
ships through the Diomed a seaman
was killed Others were caught in
Il Hood of steam as the boilers burst
and one died aboard lifeboat. The
submarine, according to the British
commander. was large craft Of the
newest type. with deck guns fore and
ait. 1t crnised among the small
boats, the captain said, and offered
medical assistance to his wounded.
but he declined, fearing ruse to
make some Of his men prisoners.
! The Diomed. a 4.500-ton steel YES
sci. was bound in ballast from Liver
pool to New York, in service of the
British admiralty.
Submarine Stops Swedish Steamer.
An Atlantic Port. Aug. 23.-A
Swedish freight steamship which ar
rived here to-day was stopped by a
German submarine Yesterday seventy
miles Off this port and held for an
hour while the U-boat commander
examined her papers. The vessel was
! allowed to proceed, the German Off
Ger told the freighter's captain, be-
J cause he was engaged in carrying
foodstuifs for his own country The
captain was warned, however, that he
was likely to be sunk at any time
should he continue in the American
| trade.
"iou would not sink us without
! warning, would you?" one of the Off
GERS Of the Swedish ship asked the
U-boat commander.
"Don't be too sure about that
best not take any chances" was the
reply.
Torpcdoed, But Reaches Port.
Toulon. Aug. 23.-The British pas
senger steamship Bandy, while on a
voyage between Malta and Sicily, was
torpedoed by a German submarine
and, although the explosion tore
gaping wound in her starboard side.
the vessel succeeded in reaching the
harbor here to-day.
The r-boat which fired the torpedo
was attacked by patrol boats escort
ing the Bandy. and was sunk. Six of
the submarines crew, numbering 65
officers and men, we're saved, includ-
Ing the first mate.
The admirable conduct of the crew
Of the Bandy was responsible for the
safety Of all the passengers. Two
men were wounded when the torpedo
exploded.
The mate of the submarine, when
hoistrd aboard a destroyer, attempt
ed to commit suicide. He said the
| lost U-boat had torpedoed the Cum
ard liner Lusitania, and had destroy
ed an aggregate of 100000 tons of
other allied shipping.
| (Available shipping registers do
not list the British steamship Bandy,