The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-06-13
Submarine Is Expected to
Hasten Home With Val.
liable Metal.
MEN WELL TREATED
Towcd by Submersible Tn
til Danish Vessel Was
Sighted.
{. $. STEAMER ESCAPES
The Edward Pierce Dodges
Shell Fire and Torpedo
and Arrives Safely.
c. $. STEAMER ESCAPES

TO more vessels have fallen victims
70 ne German submarines lurking in
Ansli'an waters. Both were Norwegian
Steamships. the Nindeggen and the Hen
d Lund.- whose destruction became
krcrn when a Danish steamship arrived
&. New York last night with their crews,
p.t:Ad up at sea.
Naval men believe at least one Of the
C-toats Is heading honeward as fast as
he engines and cargo will let her. for
she is laden with eighty tons Of copper
bars which she forced the Vindeggens
crew to transfer In llfeboats from that
u tated vessel to the submarine.
She will b rather unwieldly with such
= cargo superimposed U\on tho weight
OF her store Of torpedoes. her heavy
guns. shells, ammunition and large crew
for she Is no cargo carrying Deutsch-
iand-and will run while the running is
good.
Besides. the copper Is worth $4,000
even here. What 10 its value to Ger
many, short Of all the metals used in
making war supplies and cut OF from
the worlds sources Of supply. Is almost
heyond conjecture. Ordnance men VEN
tured the opinion last night that 1t was
booty more valuable to Germany than
IN equal weight Of gold.
PluaderinG Done Leisure1y.
While the submarine was plunderins
the vindeggen no patrol or other vessels
we're sighted. The job was carried on
in leisurely fashion under the super
vision Of the pirates Officers. Capt.
Balnested Of the vindeggen and Capt.
Kaltenborg of the Hendrix Lund said
chat they had been treated with fair
ness. the submarine towing their life
boats nearer the coast before bidding
them goodby.
Tine eighty tons Of copper was = mere
driblet In comparison with the entire
cargo Of $500 tons the Vindeggen car
r;ed. valued at more than $1.000.000.
She sailed from Valparaiso on May 20
for this port, and had aboard besides the
copper several hundred bales OF wool OF
high value. Having no wireless she was
unaware that she was running into dan
ger and even II she had known the
C-boats were in her course she would
have been helpless because Of her lack
o. speed. Her copper was consigned to
the American Smelling Company OF this
City,
Lana ssnk Later.
Two days later. on Monday. the Hen
DIRK Lund was held up north Of the posi-
zion where the Vindeggen was sent to
the bottom by the same submarine that
sunk tho vindsggen. The Lund. Capt.
Kal.enborg, was bound In ballast from
Norfolk. where she had taken on bunker
coal for this port. She had been ply
3rg between Philadelphia and South
American ports. There was nothing
aboard her that the pirate wanted and
4 was merely . question Of bombing
THIS was done expeditiously. The sub
marine had taken tho lifeboats Of the
vindeggen in tow. and after sinking the
Iund her lifeboats also were added te
the string and the pirate proceeded until
he fell in with the Danish freightel
Bgosund. He had some friendly tall
with the Dane and all the lifeboats
human cargo was transferred to tho
6rosund.
Steamship Escapes U-Boat.
How the American steamship Edward
Pierce escaped both shell hre and tor
pedo from q German submarine of thu
Virginia Capes Monday night In . sterr
chase that ended only whom coast light
were sighted was related here to-day b,
Capt. Wade, master Of the vessel. Tit
attack came soon after the Henrik Lunt
was sunk and probably was made b!
the same submarine.
capt Wade said his hrst warning o
The presence of the sea wolf was hasl
Al~.w - L. hn0
II was dark and the captain decide
that he would depend upon that an
speed to save his ship. All steam wa
crowded on ti,s vsssel and q sigsaI
course was run. The submarine con
tinued to fre. but the marksmanship Q
the sunnsrs In the darkness was poor.
Finding his guns vnavailing. the Ger
man. according to Capt Wade. Launches
q torpedo, but Il went wide. though tn
captain and nsmbsrs Of the crew saw
, pass their vessel at rapid spssd. tn
chase LASTED for two hours. the subma
rine evidently drawing OF when III
coast lights came into view.
Capt. Wade satA HE wirslsss cal
were answered ~ the Cape Sable. Nov
Scotia. station. and the American steam
snip Wslder d. NoyeA The latter vel
o., reported on IL arrival here that
lad siSi,,ed what was believed TO hav
4, CoxttsssS on ssceSd Psgs.