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meath the surface one by one until only
the stern OF tie Lansford was visible
The tug was a burning hulk.
The crews with the three women. the
Ave children and the three wounded
rowed asf ore while naval hydroair-
planes came out. located the U-boat in
the haze and engaged her unsuccessfully,
11-Year-OId Boy Dehes U-Boat.
Wien the U-boat appeared out OF the
fog, little Jack Ainsie. the eleven-year-
old son OF Capt Ainslie Of the Langs-
ford. sighted 1t. The boy at once ran to
the cabin. but not in fear. When he re-
turned he carried in his hands small
American flag. Leaning over the rail he
waved the colors In defiance at the Ger
man.
Even his impotent exhibition of pa
trfotism did not satisfy the lad. He
shouted to his father that he was going
to get his gun. 20 calibre rifle, and
return some of those shots which the
! raider was firing. But Capt Ainslie re-
strained the boy. Soon after this the
captain vas struck down as no super
+ Intended the launching of the small boat
When the little flotilla Of rowboats
| entered Nauset Harbor Jack Ainslee
was sitting In the bow Of the Lansford q
skiff holding the colors proudly erect He
got rousing cheer by the cottasers
who rushed down the beach to help the
survivors ashore.
No motion picture manager could have
staged a sea battle more effectively for
the summer visitors In this vicinity
Bathers taking their morning dip sour
| ried ashore when shells splashed within
a few hundred yards Of them Many OF
them watched the German exhibition OF
| frightfulness from the beach. Automo'
biliets stopped their cars on the brow
Of the sandhills and followed the Teu.
tonic version OF the war game. Scores
OF the cottagers did not have to leave
their piazza chairs to see every detail.
stray shells Fall Near Beach.
Some Of the people took the precau-
ticn OF going to cottages which had sub
| stantial cellars From these they
atched the firing and stood ready to
seek shelter should the German try his
marksman ship on shore targets Several
residents reported shells falling on shore
but none Of these stories could be veri-
| fed after the first excitement had died
down. The nearest shell struck. 80 far
as known, within one hundred yards OF
the beach in Nauset Harbor.
Most of those on board the vessels
attacked and fishermen on shore agreed
that the submarine was 400 feet long.
DR.. James Callahan, a member of the
stan Of the Massachusetts, General Hos
pital. was walking on the beach with
his little son when. he said, he heard
the report Of a gun and a shell splashed
in the breakers a few hundred yards
from shore Then the doctor saw the
submarine.
Two seaplanes came out Of the mist
short while after the beginning Of the
| attack. the physician caid. One plane
circled high above the submarine. whose
guns we're flashing at FREQUENT intervals
| Suddenly the aircraft swooped down.
When only a short distance above the
submarine the pilot Of the seaplane
quickly turned the nose of his machine
upward and threw bomb as he rose
The bomb did not explode.
Dr. Callahan thinks the airman tossed
out one or two more bombs, but is not
certain At any rate. as the aviator
| started another swoop toward the sub
marine one of the latter's guns, which
had been firing at the tug and barges
was swung around and pointed toward
the seaplane.
The aviator went higher and soor
was lost in the haze. A few minutes
later the submarine began to submerge
The survivors lost all their personal
effects and some of them who were hav-
ing their turn in their hunks when the
U-boat appeared came ashore in their
night clothing
Capt. ]. II. Tapley OF the tug had
sounded his whistle as soon as the u
boat was sighted and ordered the barges
abandoned.
When the firing began the crews lost
no time in abandoning the tow. Each
of the four barges had one small boat
intended to carry only Ave persons. and
all the craft were greatly overloaded.
In addition the occupants were exposed
to constant danger from shell fire, Sew
eral merchant craft were in the vicinity
and regardless OF the menace to them
selves went to the rescue of the crews
and towed the small boats to shore.
The men of the Perth Amboy. who stood
by their ship until 1t was ablaze from
bow to stern, were taken off by lifeboats
from the Coast Guard Station.
The U-boat was still trying to find
vulnerable spots in the Perth Amboy
and the remaining barge when the hy-
droairplanes again approached At sight
of the planes the submarine again sub
merged and did not reappear,
The three women and FIVE children did
not suffer physical harm. though one
OF the women. who was making her first
trip at sea, tainted after she had been
placed in small boat
The German commander either took
a long chance or made an exact chart
of the dangerous shoals and shifting
sandbars Off the Cape. 1t would be i'm
possible for him TO submerge to any
great depth and the scene OF his ex-
plots was not one in which undersea
boats might be expected to operate. To-
night he was being hunted by patrol
vessels and other war craft
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