The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-06-08
1 lEsPfRiTE DIVERSION. !
RAID ON AMERICAN SHIPPING
ADMISSION OF U.BOATS
FAILURE
Coast Defenses AdeQuate-Daniels
Says Huns Cannot rrighten Amer
ica; No Warstips VIII be Recalled.


last has brought her submarine war
fare TO the shores OF the United
States. apparently In forlorn hope
n striking telling blows on this side
OF the Atlantic and of drawing home
some OF the American naval forces
from the war zone. where the u-boat
menace In being slowly but surely
strangled to death.
In the attacks upon coasting ves-
sells almost In sight OF the New Jer-
sey coast reported today. naval off,
cials sec a frantic admission from
Berlin that the submarine has failed.
American armed power is rolling over
seas In ever-increasing force. despite
the utmost exertions OF the under
sss pirates OF the coast of Europe.
Now the raiders have crossed the
seas and iurksd for days near Amer
ica's greatest ports. They no doubt
were sent to sink transport. but here
asain they failed. Blocked Off from
the troop ships by conveying craft.
they have turned in fury against de.
-fsnseless coasters. In all the record
ef destruction they have written, the
rsidins party has struck at no vessel
bound overseas, and therefore armed
for . fight. Only ships that could not
hit back have been attacked. The
only one Of q half score Of vessels
probably sent to the bottom that had
any real military value Ina ship or
cargo was an oil tanker.
Up TO q late hour tonight the de-
struction OF Ave sailing craft and the
tanker Herbert L. Pratt was the rec
ord Of losses officiaily reported to the
navy department. The fate of the
coastwise liner Carolina. which re-
ported by wireless yesterday she was
being sheiied. is still unknown. The
crews OF some Of the craft destroyed
have been brought into port with a
story OF eleven days imprisonment
aboard al enemy submarine.
During that period scores of troop
and supply ships have gene In and
out on the business OF crushing the
Herman army In France. The u-boat
found no weak link In the chain of
armed CRATE that guarded them.
Secretary Daniels went to the cap
itaf during the day to tell the mem
bers Of the house naval committee
that the raiding was designed to
frithten the American people into
demanding tho return Of vessels from
the other side. He gave assurance
that congress need have no apprehen-
SION as TO protection of the American
coast. and that there would be no re.
Call OF forces from the war zone.
Tonight Mr.. Daniels summarized
the information reaching the depart
rnent az follows:
NAVY departments reports show
that the information reaching the de-
partment Is as follows:
Jacob n. Haskell. schooner, 1,3s2l
tons. hailing from Boston. calling for
Norfolk. eleven I'm crew. no passeng-
ers.
Isabel n. Wiley. In ballast, net ton
mage sii: crew eight.
Hattie Dunn. of Rockiand, Maine. |
net tonnage sec: In ballast; sailing
for Charleston.
Edward III. Cole. of Boston, ton |
mage 1895: I'm ballast: bound for Nor
folk: crew eleven. .-.
Herbert l.. Pratt. steamship oil !
tanker. sunk about miles south of
Ovsrails light ship Off the Delaware
coast; thirty-eight on board: thirty. |
seven OF the crew rescued and landed |
st Lewes; enc lost.
The crews OF the above named |
vessels. except the one man lost from
the Pratt. were rescued.
1T appears that the schooner Ed
ma. which was found bottom side up |
several days ago and towed to Lewes. |
Del. was also a victim OF the subma- |
rine. The crew OF the Edna have
been landed at New York. The master
or the winaeceonne picked up the
crew OF the Hattie Dunn.
Nothing further has been heard
from the steamship Carolina. which
sent out 3. o. 3. calls Sunday after.
noon. stating that she was being
shslled by a submarine. The Carolina
at the time was reported In the same
general vicinity az that In which the
schooaers were sunk the same day."
Washington. June Am NJ tho