Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-06-04

New York, June ,4.-Nine Ameri- can vessels were known tonight to have been sunk by German submar- ines off the North Atlantic coast since May 25. The largest to fall prey to the raiders which are seeking to prevent the sailings of transports with troops for the battlefields of France, was the New York and Porto Rico liner Carolina of 5000 tons, which was attacked Sunday night about 125 miles southeast of Sandy Hook The fate of 220 passengers and crew of 130 who took to the boats when shells began tc fall about the vessel was unknown late tonight, but there was hope that they had been picked up by some passing ship or would reach shore safely in the small boats. Not life was lost in the sink ing of the other ships, according to late reports tonight. Besides the Caro- lima, the known victims of the U- boats are the Atlantic Refining com panv tanker Herbert L. Pratt, the steamship Winneconnnie, of 1900 tons, and six schooners, the largest of which were the Hauppauge, new ship of 1000 tons, and the Edward H. Cole. The crews of the 8 vessels have been landed at Atlantic ports.
 New York, June 4.-Scores of Uni ted States warships where ranging the waters off the North Atlantic coast tonight in search of the German submarines which made their long expected attacg on American ship ping in home waters late yesterday afternoon. Out of the flood of reports which went thru the district after the Associated Press first flashed the news that two cruising submarines were operating 75 miles southeast of the highlands of New Jersey, these facts stood out; the steamship Caro- lima, of the New York and Porto Rico steamship company, has been sunk, nothing is known of the fate of the 220 passengers and crew of 130 who took to the boats when the under water craft began shelling the liner, the Schooner Edward H. Cole of Bos- ton has been sunk by bombs and Cap tain H. J. Newcomb of Boston with his crew of ten have been landed here after being rescued from the boat in which they were given an op- portunity to escape; the schoonerS Jacob M. Haskell of Boston, Isabel B. Wiley of Bathe, Me-, Hattie Dunn of Thomaston, Me-, and Samuel w. Hathaway have been sunk. The crew of the Haskell is reported to have been saved, but nothing is known of the fate of the three other crew. The Savannah line steamship City of Columbus is reported to have been curk hnt m dofirito roWc If hor fofo has been received. Forty-eight sur vivors of vessels sunk by German U- boats brought tc. port today by coastwise steamship were landed to- night. About half of them had been prisoners for several days aboard the submarine. The survivors were from the steamship Winnieconnie and the schooners Hauppaug, the Isabel B. Wiley, the Hattie Dunn and the Edna.
 Airplanes Huting Subs.
 New York, June 3.-Fifty or more airplanes reinforced hydroplanes which today were patrollinp the Long Island coast, every observer keeping sharp lookout for hostile submar- ines. The aircraft moved as far out as 15 miles from shore, and later in the day the patrols was extended to the New Jersey coast.
 All information was refused by the military authorities, but it was reported the forces of flyers w0nla