The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-06-10
SUBSEA RAIDER
STRIKES VESSEL
OFFCAPEH HENRY
American Liner Pinar del
Rio Attacked 20 Miles
Off Maryland Coast.
SURVIVORS ARE LANDED
New Bedford Skipper Says L.
Boat Spared Him, but Sank
Steamer.
SURVIVORS ARE LANDED

Inc ->"'ei'Sa" s'ea'"sh'p fhnAr Gel
Eio was sunk by German submarine
seventy miles OF the coast OF Maryland
Saturday morning. One OF her boats.
with Chief Mate Arkes and fifteen men
o. the crew, came ashore OH the North
Carolina coset yesterday. Another boat
with sixteen men has landed on the Vir-
E'na coast.
brief despatch to the Navy Depart
rent last night announcing the sink
:ns did not say whether the ship was
eheiled or torpedoed. but a despatch
from the Manteo Life Saving Station on
sae North Carolina shore, htty-hve miles
below Norfolk. announcing the safety OF
sixteen survivors. said the ship had been
'orpedoed.
The Pinar del Rio formerly was the
British steamship Saba. of ?,504 tons.
Sire belonged to the American and Gu
ban Steamship Line. She was built in
1925. She has been plying between
american and Cuban ports. She last
arrived IN Havana May 1s.
The Pinar del Rio is the mrs. ship
reported sunk since tho Norwegian
steamship N,neiand was sent oowh on
Nrs'n'a 'aet "e""osoAs' o"o '"e
The sinking or the Maryland coAst
eSplodes the theory that the submarines
were working towaru more southern
waters or that the! nad departed.
All sinkinss reported 10 inc Navy pe'
fdrtment since the SUBMARINES ie'' ."e
New Jersey coast oistrrt last SunoAS
nave occurred or the coa"'s o' wary!
Iand ana virginia Win seNerai ol '"c'''
oJe east OF cape iienrv' ln.s '''oic"'eS
'nat the u-ooats are operating over
Very limited area proo~oiy OF not '"ois
TAN few hundred square miles, ou' al
very important shipping lane.
Slice Il became known that 'ne SUD
marines were IN TINS area haS.i anu an
forces have concentrated their eHor's
here The task OF oase'ns t"e Sea
NoINes even IN 80 Unite" n" arc"
H'' an easy one AZ inc vessels "a" SUI
merge and lie on the ootto'n un''' aa"-
s. IS past Ihen' 100 inc suSses"o"
las been made tnat the ceait may nav
oeen hndins refuge az hleht III .he "c' ',,
'''es ana ihIets a'ohs '"e eas'e'"
g'na shore line ana 'here !echA
batteries and given the crews orea'"'"s
and resting spells
=. w.,r.a.
'he submarine menace on w. a ',.,,
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eo'h'ns anu guns - 20 ,,,.r.
S'" 'he ueparture H"u a''' r.,,
,.,,. =, an
usp ."s' ",es ,,.,r.,a.s w.rr.
neHH" ,..,.'. po., =. 80" .uhn.-.,h,e.
20 I'll" "o'''''' u
snd two days before she got fere her
passengers more than Sne usuA"s
or'hss even IN piac'o peace ','"e, w.
f'ar''eo 10 receive oraers ''''''"'
'noSe enforced ~neh enc wac '"''''s
t'roush the European danger |'"e.
me hshts were oouseo al "'s"' y"
f',hay' the htepoats s"u"S o'' ""u -"
'e"s kept AT s'Auons '"e"'' .oo'
Toars' The zlezass'ne OF inc i"e. w.
'er convinced 'he passens.'" '""' '".
We're IN peril. ihe' o'o "o' 'e","
o"nn'teiS untH A"er,ca" "e"sp~s
'"e put aooAru ,'no-,
'a' 'ne "eT"'""
"'a oeen AT "orS OH OUT ooAs'
!hey were useo 10 e"peu."s uo"u's
s." 'ook 'he he"s e.I",' '" 49,.
o''cefs had to'd then' INC speeu y, We
h'p, about twenty knots AT p"c"'
"ouln be TOO last TOT Inc s",i'es. SUI
marine ailoat ehe almost H'ane ."'s y"
tie last two days OF her rum shorten
Ing her usual trip somewhat.