The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1918-08-15
HUN DIVER MAKES
GAS RAID ON j. s.;
6 MEN OVERCOME
Crew of Station at Charleston,
N. c., Victims.
U-BOAT SUNK BY DESTROYER
American War Craft Uses Six Depth
Bombs to Wreck German Subma-
rine OFF Vireina-Three
More Boats Sunk.

Washington, Aug. 13.-Using poi
soned gas, n German submarine at
tackled Smith island, off the North
Carolina coast, Saturday. Six men
were overcome.
The official announcement said the
navy department received dispatch
from Charleston, S. c., that the attack
with gas about five o'clock Saturday
afternoon temporarily put out of bust
hess the coast guard station and light
house personnel" The report goes on {:
"About 40 minutes after the attack
three large oil spots each over an acre
in extent, were observed passing
This oil, from which the gas was
no doubt generated, must have been
released from a submarine in the vi
cinity of the entrance to the channel
with the hope that it would come in
with the tide, but the tide fortunately
set along the island.
Report was made to Colonel Chase
coast artillery corps, Fort Caswell, n
c., by Captain Willard of the Smith
island coast guard after the effects Of
the gas were noted. Six men We're
gassed. No deaths.
THE gas had the effect of mustard
gas and was effective about SO or 40
minutes.
1.-THE incident was reported by Col
onel Chase to the naval district com
mander. Smiths island is off the
mouth of the Cape Fear river, near the
entrance of the channel to Wilmington
n. c."
Washington, Aug. 13.-The German
submarine operating off the Virginia
coast was attacked by an American
destroyer, which used II depth bombs
in an effort to get the raider. The sub
marine did not reappear and oil was
noticed on the surface of the sea.
Destroyer Dashes After Sub.
The date of the attack was not Civ
en- in the report received by the navy
department. The submarine was sight
ed at a distance and the destroyer i'm
mediately dashed full speed toward
her
The German submerged. Circling
about the spot the destroyer launched
Is depth bombs. When oil was noticed
on the surface, the destroyer put over
two additional depth charges.
U-Boat Sinks More off U. S.
German submarine raiders operat-
ing off the Atlantic coast have de-
stroyed three more vessels, the navy
department announced. The British
steamer Penistone of 4,139 gross tons
was torpedoed 100 miles east of Nan
tucket lightship Sunday morning; the
Swedish steamer Sydland, of 3,03l
gross tons, was sunk by bombs August
8 100 miles southeast of Nantucket
and an American schooner, reported as
the Herman Winter but not yet def
nitely identified, was destroyed by gun
fire Sunday 200 miles east of New
York. All members of the crew of the
Sydland were reported saved, but the
navy's dispatches did not clear up the
fate of the crews of the other YES
sells.
The PeniStoe and Herman Winter
Georges bank, off the Massachusetts
coast, where a submarine came to the
surface Sunday in the midst of a fleet
of American fishing vessels, nine of
,Vara Jagtroun6
Can't Place U-Boat Commander.
Investigation by Commissioner
Smith of the bureau of fisheries failed
to develop evidence to support re-
ports that the commander of the Ger
man submarine which has beeI sink
ing fishing craft Off the New England
coast formerly was in the United
States fisheries service. Commission
or Smith returned from Gloucester,
where he inquired into the report. He
said he found no one who recognized
he had been informed that former
fisheries service navigator whose name
was mentioned in the rumors and whose
wife lives in Gloucester has been in
termed in Sweden. This man was in
the fisheries service from 1896 until
January, 1916, according to the rec
ords when he was discharged as being
unsatisfactory. He was born in
Sweden and had become an American
citizen by naturalization.