The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-06-07
SUBMARINES RAID ATLANTIC
COAST, SINK TEN VESSELS
Germany Frantic Over Failure of Diver
Campaign, Tries To Frighfen United
States Into Recalling War Ships

tanned br IN" administration and that
there IL no intention of recalling any
Of our war craft.
The German submarines, the secre.
taTy said. had not dared to attack any
armed vessels or any that were convoy.
ed by war ships. All the victims were
unarmed craft. Scores Of transports
and supply ships left port while tho
U-6oats we're lurking outside waiting
fot unprotected and heIpfIess craft,
but the divers we're unable to penetrate
the convOys and they all went on their
way safely and unmolested.
In Announcing the names OF the YES,
sells known to huNr been sunk, Score.
taly Daniels said that the Edna was
fonAd hottOm-ur several days ago. The
fate Of the Carolina, which was last
heard from a. she was being shelled,
Was, he said. still unk OF all
those sunk, only the tanker Herbert l..
Pratt had any military value. II was
not known whether or not any lives
had been lost
, Although the navy department
could not confirm reports that one L.
boat had been sunk and another cap
tured, survivors Of some Of tho lost
vessels we're positive that this was so.
II is believed that dereliet schooners
found OF the coast of Virginia were
victims Of the submarines
Navy Is Aroused
The first report Of the sinkings
aroused the navy to feverish activity
and patrol boats were rushed from
every direction to the scene Of the
slnkings. Every craft was ordered to
fire At suspicious objects.
or fifteen survisors who were land
ed at an Atlantic port, some said they
had been taken from their vessels and
held aboard q submarine for eleven
days. They were then set adrift in
boats and were picked up by other
American vessels This is believed to
have been trick on the part of the
sumbarine commanders to try to lure
other vessels within striking distance
30 they, too, could be sunk.
~ When the survivors of the schooner
Edward H. Cole were forced to take
TO their boats, before the subma rine
bisw up the schooner. with bombs, the
gubmafine trailed the life boats until
their occupants were rescued by. the
steamer Bristol. The submarines then
attacked the Bristol, but she escaped
by .steaming into the Norfolk shoals
where the U-boats dared not follow her
Members Of the Cole Is crew who saw
the Submarine that sunk their vessel
said It was about $50 feet long and
armed fore and aft with guns.
Five U-BoAts Reported
Navy department officials said YES
tefday that reports received by the
department indicated that Ave subma.
rines were operating of the coast. One
was sighted of the Virginia coast
A despatch from Atlantic City said
that the steamer TrexeI was subma,
rined on Sunday sixty miles of the
coast. All Of the crew of thirty,six
have reached port. -
H.. New York received the news of the
submarine raid, with mo signs Of ter
r9t, but the city became dark. The
police, IN order to prevent possibility
Of shirplanes from the submarines drop
ping boribs on the city,, ordered that
no lights be displayed.
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sent out rby the bureau Of public in
formation yesterday, is:
'Secretaty of the Navy Daniels
states that German submarine or
submarines, appearing of the Allan.
tie coast, had sunk FIVE small sailing
vessels and tanker. Unofficial reports
odd two more sehOoners and three
steamers to the list. All were coast.
wise vessels, the total tonnage repre-
septed being 10000 tons. No lives
are ~ yet reported lost, as the crews,
in small boats have either been rescued
at sea or have made their way ashore.
mo troopsbips or ships with sup
plies for Europe have been lost.
q Transportation to, Europe is unin
terrupted, while aircraft and destroy
ers have been sent out to hunt for the
raider.
Navy chiefs state that the raid has
been long expected as an effort to
interrupt the stream of American
troops overseas, but declare that the