Republican farmer., 1918-08-16
Schooner Murley Brings in Members of Fishing
 Boats Crew. ATTACKING SUB
 300 FEET LONG Hun Commander Said to Have Been in U. $. Fish
 cries Service.

An Atlantic Port, Aug. 12- A British merchant steamer was sunk recently off the North At lantic coast, according to the second officer of the German submarine which sent nine fishing schooners to the bottom off Georges Banks Saturday and Sunday. This report was given members of the crew of the Kate Palmer, a fishing schooner, when they were taken aboard the U-boat, prior to the destruction of their yes | sel.
 The fishermen did not learn the name of the Britisher, but were informed she had two smokestacks.
 The fishermen were brought here early today aboard the auxiliary schooner Helen Murley, after having l been set adrift in a dory shortly be- fore nightfall by the submarines commander. They reported that probably 60 fishermen were cast adrift in small boats after the U-boat's at
 tack upon the fleet. Naval and ma rine men expected, however, that most of these men would be picked up.
 The crew of the Palmer reported that probably 30 sailing vessels were
 in the immediate vicinity at the time
 of the attack. They said they heard firing all day Saturday from 10 a. m.
 Most of the sinkings occurred on Sat
 urday rather than Sunday, as early reports indicated.
 The men brought in by the Murley I included Captain Edward Russell, of the Kate Palmer, and Frederick w.
 Quinlan, one of the crew, and two
 Nova Scotia fishermen.
 They said that when the submarine , appeared they attempted to get away, , but changed their minds and surren- dered. Captain Russell and his small crew were ordered alongside the sub-
 marine and taken aboard. Iimmedi-
 ately they were sent below and were
 kept there for about an hour while the submarine proceeded in westerly
 direction. Later they were told to
 
 about o'clock Saturday night. They were picked up five hours later by the
 Murley.
 They did not see their schooner sunk, but assumed she was destroyed by bomb.
 The fishermen reported that the
 submarine was 300 feet long and car , ried crew of about 70 men. A six , inch gun was mounted forward and a
 smaller astern. The second officer
 told them the submarine could make
 21 knots on the surface.
 Washington, Aug. 12-An the vess- , els are believed by naval officials to s have been accounted for by the U-
 boat which has been operating in I North Atlantic waters for two weeks s or more. The Penistone was sunk near Georges Bank, off the Massa- s chusetts coast, where some eleven l fishing boats were destroyed yester- day.
 Boston, Aug. 12-Fiftcen survivors
 of the Swedish steamer Sydland ar
 rived here today and reported thaI their vessel had been sunk by a Ger ! man submarine Satur day Fifteen
 others of the crew wee picked up by another ship.
 Washington, Aug. 12--Destruction on
 of the British steamer Penistone and the Swedish steamer Sydland by d German submarine off the New Eng |, land coast, was reported today to the Navy Department The Penistone e was sent down yesterday about one
 hundred miles east of Nantucket, ana
 the Sydland on August 8 southeast
 of Nantucket No news of the fate
 of the crews was given in the de- partment's despatch.
 Washington Aug 12-Later the navy was advised that the American schooner Herman Winter had beer O sunk in the same general locality 0 There is no record here of a schoon- $ ar of that name. An American t coastwise steamer named Herman = | Winter is reported safe in port. Il Gloucester, Mass. Aug. 12-Fisher-
 men claim to have identified the com
 mander of German submarine which
 has been sinking fishing boats off the r Atlantic coast as a skilled navigate: ' formerly in the United States fisheries
 service. Two men from different n schooners that were sunk claim to If have recognized a former acquaint' l. ance who had changed little eXcep > that he had grown beard since they II last saw him.
 e An Atlantic Port, Aug. 1=-1 he e auxiliary schooner Albert Black own ed at Portland, Maine, was one Of the Il fishermen attacked by a German sub- marine off George Bank saturday
 Captain Granville Johnson reported upon arrival here today that severa @ shells were fired at hs cralt at J o'clock yesterday morning, one oi
 which struck close by. The submarine n was three miles away. With the aid r of all her sails and auxiliary power IT the schooner escaped unharmed with l. her crew of ten.
 l. New York, Aug. 12-Marine under
 writers today advanced war rlsks rates e on sailing vessels both for coastWise '- and trans-ocean routes because of the
 continued activity of U-boats in coast -- al waters Rates jumped to 3 per e cent. and in some cases to per cent e for sailings between American ports
 while tran-ocean rates were advanced
 to 10 per cent by some underwriters ' An Atlantic Port, Aug. 12-Subma- Il rfnes:-Two steamers with survivors