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here. Distant reports, as of gunflre
were heard
Ocials at the naval base and the
Iienlopen coast guard stations would
neither confirm nor deny the report.
short time before it was received de-
stroyers said to be on test runs inside
the preakwater threw a heavy smoke
screen the length Of the harbor, cutting
off the view of the bay from shore.
Newspaper men were permitted to
approach closely to the shore. and a
tight censorship is being enforced on all
developments.
Belief that a submarine was captured
or sunk is strengthened by reports of
persons who arrived here from Cape
May this afternoon. They tell of rumors
that a U-boat was destroyed by depth
bomb dropped from a seaplane which
had been soaring over the waves for
hours The plane returned to the naval
base at Cape May .'' '' D.
The destroyer which has been pa
trolling off the capes since daybreak re-
| turned to the Lewes naval station for a
brief stay this afternoon as II to make
some important report
Rear Admiral Winslow came to Lewes
from Washington this afternoon to be-
gin an investigation into all the cir.
cumstances attending the submarine raid
on coastwise commerce.
Late today is was still uncertain that
the schooner Desauss had been tor
| pedoed and abandoned off Cape Henlo.
| pen, as reported from an official source
| this morning. No such ship is listed in
| the Maritime register; marine men
| thought the name might have been con.
fused with the French four-masted shir
i Desaix, which has not been reported al
| any port for several weeks.
A steamship agency here denied that
an abandoned schooner had been found
| The report arose, they said. from the
| discovery of the wrecked stern of the
Crowell and Thurlow schooner Horatie
G. Foss, of Boston, which was recently
in collision near the same spot with the
L. S. collier Jupiter. The Foss is now
at Cramps shpyard in Philadelphia
for repairs
| Two more vessels are reported to have
been sunk in a raid twenty miles of
| Cape May
| The identity of the vessels reported
sunk off Cape May is not known. They
are reported to have been small schoon.
ers. Coast guards are said to have
confirmed the report of the sinkings
and fishermen returning to port this
morning reported the sea full of float.
ing oil several miles off Cape Ma,
Point.
| No vessels are allowed in the water!
Of the mouth Of the Delaware today
Mines have been placed and all ship
are ordered into the harbor of refug'
until further notice. Upon arrival a
Cape May, those aboard the May S.. tn
EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER's special boa
in the submarine area. under command
Of Captain Adam Smith, were told 1T hat
passed through one of the most danger
Gus fields of mines ever laid They wer
ordered not to venture out again. ..
About one mile from the Delawar
Breakwater, two camouf1aged min
sweepers were steaming side by side a
distance of 100 yards apart. Nea
them was a naval vessel. She seemed t
cut across the bow of the May s.. ant
as she did so the red burgee pennant O
danger broke from the mast halyards.
The May S. turned back into the port
but after a conference aboard ship tn
three occupants. including Pilot Aiber
S Laudlam. of West Cape May, decide'
to chance it through.