The Colorado statesman., 1918-06-08
VIVID STORIES OF U-BOAT
RAIDS ARE TOLD AS
SURVIVORS ARRIVE
(The Rocky Mountain News)

brought here today by an American
coastwise freighter from southern wa
ters Navy officials took the men in
charge after they landed, but it was
reported they were additional surviv-
ors from the schooners Edna, Hattie
Dunn, Isabel B. Wiley and Hauppauge.
Like some of the other survivors OF
these vessels who arrived last night,
number of the sixteen brought in
today were held prisoner aboard u
boat, possibly different one.
About eight of them were kept for
eleven days on the U-151. The 9TH
ers were members of the crew of the
Hauppauge, last of the four vessels
sunk and on one of whose lifeboats
the sixteen men were set adrift.
The men told navy officials, when
questioned, that they were well treat
ed aboard the U-151 and that her COM
mander said to them when he took
them aboard:
81 am going to hold you on board
because | do not want to let it be
known that l am operating in Ameri-
can waters. / am not the kind OF Ger
man that kills men if he doesn't have
to-"
the commander as saying:
~ am letting you go because it Is
getting close to the time when l may
have to return"
Meantime, the men said, they had
been virtually given the freedom OF
the boat and had received the same
rations as the German crew. Some OF
them displayed some German money
which they had exchanged for Amer
ican coins as souvenirs.
Had Six Months Provisions.
A member of the crew of the U-151,
the German submarine which des-
troyed the schooner Edna, told Enoch
Roker, one of the Edna's crew, Roker
said here today, that the U-boat fleet
plans to remain in American waters
until August.
Roker, for eight days prisoner on
the submarine, was rescued after he
and other prisoners had been placed
in the open boats of another sunken
ship, and arrived here last night.
"The storekeeper told me that since
they had left Kiel two months ago,
after big celebration before the sub
marine fleet left" Roker said today,
they were provisioned for SIX
months cruise, and he said they III
tended to stay on the Western Attain
tic coast until August at least. He dhi
not tell me how many submarines
there were in the fleet, as the Officers
on board kept vigilant eyes and ears
Sunk by U-Boat Cruiser.
Atlantic City, n. j., June Capt
Kenneth B. Lowry of the Texel is. con-
vinced that his ship was sunk by one
of the new German submarine cruls-
ers, and that it crossed the Atlantic
and did not come from base on this
side of the Atlantic.
Information dropped during con-
versation with the German command
er to whom Captain Lowry surreh-
dered leads him to that belief. A piece
of shell picked up in the engine room
indicated, the engineer said, that the
submarine carried at least six-1nch
guns.
Twelve of the TeXel crew were IN
terviewed. Two said the submarine
was $50 feet long and ten placed It's
length at at least 800 feet 1t carried
guns fore and aft.
The Germans acted with all the po
lite ruthlessness of Western bandit
according to the young skipper, who is
but % years old.
Ordered to Surrender.
"At o'clock Sunday afternoon
was lying in a hammock. suddenly
we heard a shot and shell whl5zea
across our bows. l ran to the bridge
and a second shell tore away the nam
mock Then the submarine rose ana
fired two more shots. One of these
tore away part of the bridge and one
went through the engine room, dis
abling the machinery. After the fourth
shot the submarine ran up the Ger
man flag and an officer appeared IN
the coming tower and ordered us 10
hove to-
I'VE hoved. all right, and boat nut
off from the submarine and came over
to us. Up over the side sprang
Young German officer. He was little
more than boy.
81 had piped all hands to quarters
There wasn't trace of confusion. Tne
German commander came up to the
bridge and extended his hand.
at was certainly funny way 10
capture a boat, but he looked friendly
and shook hands with him. He said
I'm sorry to do this, captain, but this
is war, you know. Get your men Off
as quickly as possible. We are going
to sink your ship.
81 gave orders to clear the boat ana
meanwhile the German officer looked
on He told me he had been some time
cruising around the Atlantic coast, but
that | was his first prize. He seemed
to be apologizing for capturing me,
Commander Waves Farewell.
when we were all safely trans
ferred to the lifeboats with some hard
tack and water he asked me If / knew
where l was. I told him did. and ne
expressed the hope that we would get /
safely ashore. He put off at the same
time in the second lifeboat. AS ne
climbed aboard his submarine ne
waved a farewell and went into the
coming tower. A moment later the
U-boat disappeared"
A member of Captain Lowry's crew
cold tho CarnanS hefnra leaving the |