The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-04

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 can students as well as the regular American flyers eagerly volunteered for service.
 More than 100 aeroplanes and dir igible balloons left Hazelhurst avla. l ton field along on scount duty. Nearly all the aircraft were manned by regu- ! lar army aviators. They circled over Long Island and off the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the eastern extremity of Long Island,
 In their flights today the aircraft were not armed, but in a short time they will be equipped with bomb dropping mechanism and machine guns.
 The only way of hearing from the vessels in peril was by the flash Of their wireless. Even if S 0. $. calls were received nothing could be done by their sister ships except 10 wat for, following the rule of the sea in the German campaign, no merchant vessel could aid through the fear or 1 it's own destruction. But it was known that the wireless operators of the navy would pick the calls up and that destroyers or other war craft would steam full speed to the rescue.
 Clyde line officials were worried to- night about the safety of the steam ship Mohawk which left a southern port yesterday afternoon with approx lmately 250 passengers. No word has been received from her today and it was conhidered possible she might have been in the path of the enemy submarines
 The man point of discussion on the maritime exchange tonight was con cerning how many submersibies are , operating on this side. The general opinion was that fleet had been sent over in the forlorn hope of so terror izing American shipping that they will
 be able to check the steady flow ol troops
 The chief concern expressed by army and navy officials was that the
 coming of the German boats to the Atlantic seaboard would cause need - less fear to the relatives of men in the service who are about to be sent to the battle lines They we're conf dent m the'r assertions that there was no more occasion for alarm than there has been hitherto, pointing out that if American Warshils could convoy ships through the danger zone on the other side without the loss of a man there IWas every reason to believe they would be equally successful nearer home
 The vessel which bro ght in tae forty eight survivors was an Amer can steamship which picked chem up at o'clock this morning. 25 miles from Barnesat x. J Captain Hoi- brook of the Hattie Dunne, whose home Is at Tenants Harbor, Maine, told the following story Of how he and his men had been kept prisoners for eight days on the submarines:
 We left New York for Charleston in ballast May 23. Two days later We were tbout l5 miles south of Winter Quarter lighisnip bowling along under an eight knot breeze when l heard a shell pass near the vessels Then came another which feil perhaps a quarter Of a mile away.
 'I was not taking much notice be- cause believed the vessel which l saw about two miles away was an Amer can submarine at target prac-
 tice, A third shell exploded close by us on the weather quarter and 1 knew that whoever it was they want ed Us 10 stop.
 '1 brought the vessel mp into the wind The submarine with her Sir pertsrdtcure and coming tower show ing plainly about the water came
 within POO yards and | saw that she
 was flying the two code letters. "A B. meaning stop immediately.
 From a staff at the rear end of the superstructure futtered small flag of the imperial German navy. An Of ficer and three men came over in d small boat not over twelve feet long. In perfect English the officer told us 10 get into our boats and that we Lad put ten minutes allotted us to get clear. They placed bombs along the sides and blew her up immediately, in the meantime putting an armed German sailor on board the small boat
 in which were seven men and my
 self, This did not give me time to
 rescue my personal effects and nau-
 tical instruments, so l lost them all
 My men only saved what they stood
 Tn. Perhaps | would have been given
 more time if the commander of the
 submarine had not seen the Happaug
 under full sail four or five miles away l4ike us the Happaug was light and |
 understand bound from Portland to | Newport News They destroyed Cap
 tain Sweeney's fine new schooner
 after ordering hm and his crew tr ' CONTINUED ON PAGE TuREEl