Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial. (Wilmington, Del.) 1878-1928, 1918-06-05
U-BOAT RAIDERS
LIST INCREASING
Sehooners Edward r. Baird and
Samuel c. Mengle Added
to Victims.
FRENCH TANKER RESCUED
American DESTROYER Robs Pirates
of Prey Off the Maryland
Coast.

New York. June ).
Don't use your wireless we
wont shoot" is the newest made
in Germany" war slogan under
which the emporef's submarine
commanders are carrying their
campaign of frightfulness into
American Atlantic waters. ae-
cording 10 persons among 80
survivors of the steamship Csro-
lima who were brought 10 this
port aboard coast~iSc schooner
early today.
The Carolina was destroyed by
U-bost gunfire sfty miles off the
Delaware capes on Sunday even
ing.
Stones told by passengers and crew
Of the sunEcn vessel indicate that EDWIN
" voeeI OF New York CITY, the ships
CHIEF wireless operator, played a spectscu-
lsf part in the dramatic raidIng OF the
Csr1lira When the submarine mess ged
ti., use no wireless we don shoot
Nuge: dehantly repeated ms !. o. ;.
sisnais phirh ne had already begun
fssEsng, and wss on the verge OF answer
ing queries iron Cape May and Brooklyn
a~g Yard ststione for the Carolina
paeition when Captain I. r. D. Barbour,
tccel's commander, ordered him 10 QUIT
l,is KEY and Sc whether the Germans
would keep their pledge. passengers de-
clared
Captain Barbour mad decided to accept
t;.s proposition. laid down by the U-boat
skipper because M believed dissent would
have r1eanr forfeiture Of the lives OF the
women end children aboard the waylald
vessel
Arrival Of the $50 survivors here today,
156 Of whom were passengers and ~
members Of the crew, leaves an apparent
discrepancy of 70 persons TO be accounted
for.
New York and Porto Rico Steamship
COMPANY. owrers of. the Carolina Is
based on adv7ces that sixteen are known
70 have been lost from lifeboat which
reached Leyves. Delaware, yesterday with
only nineteen OF it's original burden OF IS
r,arsors. and that IS were landed yes
ierday at Atlantic City
The arrivals here today and at Atlantic
City and Lewes yesterday, together with
the sixteen dead account for 3l3 persons
The officials Of the Carolina who reached
here TODAY said the vessel carried 342 pas
eengcrs and crew.
WOMEN n EVENING CLOTHES.
The women passengers were IN evening
eowns and throughout the storm suffered
intensely from exposure large bundle
containing a number OF heavy jumpers
foared up TO the boat on Monday after
noon. The women were dressed in these
when they arrived on the beach yester-
dav afternoon.
After abandoning ships, the survivors
reaching here said some one in life
boat began uhistling THE Star-Spangied
Banner and il was instantly taken up
BY those in other boats the men joining
in the whistiing. and many of the women
eineining the words of the national anthem.
Veteran mariners who superntended
the allotting of lifeboats 10 those on the
Carolina declared the cooiness and eX-
petition was remarkable rev women
became hysterical, they declared. and
most of these collected their wits under
the rebukes promptly accorded by other
women of stOuter courage.
Army OFFICERS UNbOLEsTED.
Those who reached here after escaping
the triple menace of German gunfire
. drowning and starvation, we're unable to
understand why the commander OF the
U-boat chose 10 let go unmoiested ten
newly-comTnissioned licutenants from the
Second United States army officers
training camp at San Juan.
III vas HAaIllieSiy lIupOSSlDle lOT THESE
men to escape the notice of the Hun cap
tain, it was said, but he evinced no more
interest in them, seemingly, than in any
others aboard.
The officers, all of whom reached here
safely, are:
First Lieutenant J. =. O'Toole Clinton,
Mass First Lieutenant i. d. Carpenter,
Maplewood, n. j.; First Lieutenant r. J
Boyd, Syracuse, n Y; Second Lieutenant
O. Goldsmith, Pittsburg; second Lieu
fenant Bernard O. Weitz, New York City;
xoecond Lieutenant NJ Ortiz, New York
City; First Lieutenant g. Nadal, San
Juan, p r.; First Lieutenant Leslie W
Arthur. Boston: Second Lieutenant Viii
liam Redding, Meshanticut, +. j. First
Lieutenant NJ Sides, Philadelphia
Captain Robert X Wright and Pay
master ID g. CrowelI of the nited State,
Navy, also appeared on deck ol me sub
Inarine-marked vessel without drawing
comment from the Teutou under 9eaulcn
Is HOURS rs orE> BOATS
Rhile vafylng - d.-aH the stories
narrated bt he refugee accorded IN ail
important ln"Ident- ,-e5fdIng he -ub-
mersihlcs Sudden no-ing uF 'hryug
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