The Mena weekly star., 1918-06-06
.U-DOAT DANGER IS
 PAST FOR PRESENT
Naval Officials Believe the Sea Wolves Have Departed for Their Base All Sorts of Craft Searching
 the Sea.

Washington, June 4.--Navy De- partment officials believed today the submarine or submarines that sank probably more than ten American vessels off the Atlantic coast was on it's way back to it's base and that, for the time being the danger is over. Secretary Daniels announced this morning that no additional advices of submarine activities had reached the department.
 Warships, submarine chasers and airplanes were securing the seas today in search of the enemy. Navy officials threw a veil of secrecy over their movements, however, and requested newspapers to make no mention of their whereabouts.
 There is a growing impression here that only one submarine took part in the raid. The Navy Department has only one report to indicate the pres ence of more. That is the statement of the captain of the schooner Cole that he saw the periscope of a sec ond U-boat. Mr. Daniels said today that nothing to confirm other reports indicating that from one to five sub marines had been off the coast had been received. The secretary reiter- ated his opinion that the purpose of the raid was to create demand in the United States for the return of American naval craft to home waters. This, he said, was based on specula- tion and not on any concrete informa- tion.
 No Spy Connections Known.
 No information has reached the de- partment, it was said, indicating that during the eleven days or more the submarine is now known to have been in American coastwise waters, it had any communication with agents ashore It is understood, however, that the naval service has not neg lected that possibility and that every efforts to check up what has trans spired along the coast is included in the program it is following out.
 The Death Roll
 The possible death toll from Ger many's submarine warfare on the American side of the Atlantic during the last ten days was reduced today to fewer than $50 souls.
 With the landing of nineteen sur- vivors of the missing steamship Caro- lima, of the New York and Porto Rico line at Lewes, Del, the persons un- accounted for from this ship number 321, of whom POP are passengers.
 The City of Columbus, of the Sa- vannah line, arrived at an Atlantic Port bringing safely her passengers and crew numbering TIT who had been listed as missing. Also at Atlantic ports arrived the steamship Grecian, with the missing crew of the sunken schooner Jacob M. Haskell, the Gov ernor Cobb, United Stetes Shipping Board training ship, with 200 appren- tiee seamen aboard; the steamship Dorchester of the Merchants & Min ers' Transportation Company and the Clyde liner Huron, from a southern port.
 Hc NOillitB tO HhIDuI VI ftl bttScC vessels left unaccounted for in addi- tion to the Carolina's missing, only the crew, exact number not known here, of the schooner Samuel W. Hathaway, of Boston.
 While the country has been startled by the appearance of the enemy raid CT on this side of the Atlantic, the fact stood out today that, although It had been in American waters ten days, it's success from a military point Of view, was negligible. No transport or ship bound with war supplies for Europe has been sunk.
 The total American tonnage known to have been destroyed amounts to something over 10000 tons gross, all coast-wise ships, seven of them sail ing vessels.