The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-09-16

made to find out if the guilty party
In case such one has been found guilty,
he has often been assaulted and beaten
10 death by the mob.
'The appearance of the Uboat before
their very coast will hardly tend to i'm
prove the morale of the Americans.
"When things became hot for the
U-boat the people became somewhat
frightened One day we succeeded in
sinking six vessels. After sinking the
first sailing vessel the crew was put on
a steamer which came into sight. They
spoke very gratefully of the treatment
which we accorded them. The captains,
to be sure, thought that they would be
thoroughly questioned at once upon their
landing; they said that what they would
report would be of no consequence, how
ever. as everything would be misquoted
I'VE met another steamer, the Caro-
lima 1t was halted by wireless. 1t had
300 passengers on board. In spite of
the warning signal. it did not stop. On
coming nearer, it became evident that
the steamer contained about 5000 tons
of cargo When the lifeboats, which
were to carry the travellers to safety,
were let down two OF. them which were
filled were said according to the Ameri-
can report, to have overturned. The re-
mainder of the passengers escaped un-
hurt. Great excitement prevailed upon
leaving the ship.
"In the course of the next few days
10000 tons were sunk. Included in this
were shipments of cotton, copper, and
sugar In America the scarcity of sugar
is especially noticeable. The Americans
| are quite unhappy because there is no
more whisky to be had The beer too
is bad it is only rarely served at that
The captains of these ships said that
| the attempts to bring the Australian
| harvests to America could not succeed
because of the scarcity of ships; that
| the transportation difficulties in genera
were huge. One had to rely upon exports
| from elsewhere more than usually
Strangely enough, nearly all coal wa:
transported along the coast in sailing
| vessels.
Zone day we met a Norwegian shil
that contained about 900 tons of coppe
in addition to other valuable cargo. IN
the meantime another ship appeared, 81
that we ordered the Norwegian ship t
wait until we returned. This the Nor
wegian ship really did, quite patiently
for long time. The ship which we ha'
encountered in the meantime was a.
American steamer, upon which four me
entered as prize crew All passenger
were saved. After the steamer had bee
sunk we went back to the Norwegia
RI ship and asked why it had not escaped
, The captain said he thought he woul
not have been able to 90 very far a
any rate-our speed our guns woul
reach him soon enough. Inclement wealth
er had set in in the meantime, SO tina
! the valuable copper material could no
be unloaded Not until the next mornin
could this task be begun. The cope
was in the handy form of bags.
2 The captain of this ship had take
another captain who wished to trav,
f to his homeland. together with his VIII
= and a two year old child, along with hin
2 We took the woman on board Sh
: was quite a genteel lady. only she use
e perfume somewhat too freely, SO that
: was not long before the whole U-boa
e reeked of it, We wanted to take he
. below deck, but owing to the roug
t weather this was not agreeable to he
, SO she stayed on the surface of the We:
i sell where her husband had some wicke
: furniture carried to her The child wa