The Sentinel=record., 1918-06-04

Washington, June 3-Germany at last has brought her submarine war fare to the shores of the United States apparently in a forlorn hope of strlk- ing telling blows on this side of the Atlantic and of drawing home some of the American naval forces from the war zones, where the U-boat menace is being slowly but surely strangled to death. In the attacks upon coast ing vessels almost in sight of the New Jersey shore reported today navy officials see a frantic admission from Berlin that the submarine has failed. American armed power is rolling over the seas despite the utmost exer- tions of the undersea pirates off the coasts of Europe.
 Now the raiders have crossed the seas and lurked for days near Amer ica's greatest ports. They no doubt were sent to sink transports, but here again they have failed. Blocked off the troop ships by convoy craft they have turned in fury against defense less coasters. Only ships that could not hit back have been attacked. The cnly one of half score of vessels probably sent to the bottom that had any real military value in ship orI cargo was an oil tanker
 Up to late hour tonight the de- struction of five sailing craft and the tanker Bert l.. Pratt was the record of losses officially reported to the navy department. The fate of the coastWise liner Carolina, which re- ported by wireless yesterday she was being sheled was still unknown. Tnel crews of some of the craft destroyed have been brought into port with al story of eleven days Imprisonment aboard an enemy submarine. During that period scores of troops and sup ply ships have passed in and out in the business of crushing the German army in France. The U-boat found no weak link in the chain of armed craft that guarded theml
 Secretary Daniels went to the capi- tol during the day to tell members of the house naval committee the raid was designed to frighten the Ameri- can people into demanding the return of war vessels from the other side. He gave assurance that congress need have no apprehension as to protec- ton of the American coast and that there will be no recall of forces from the war zone.
 Tonight MT. Daniels summarized the information reaching the department as follows:
 Navy department reports show that the following vessels have been sunk: Jacob M- Haskell, schooner, 1862 tons, hailing from Boston, sailing for Norfolk, eleven in crew, no passen- gers; lsabell B. Wiley, in ballast, net tonnage 611, crew eight; Hattie Dunn, of Rpckland, Maine, net ton nage 365, in ballast, sailing for Charleston; Edward H. Cole, of Bos- ton, tonnage 1895, in ballast bound for Norfolk, crew of eleven; Herbert l.. Pratt, steamship oil tanker sunk about five miles south of Over Falls lightship, off the Delaware coast. 3S on boardt 37 of the crew rescued, one lost.
 "All the crews of the above named vessels except the one man lost from the Pratt was rescued.
 'It appears that the schooner Edna which was found bottom side up sev- edal days ago and towed into Lewes
 Delaware. was also a victim of the submarine. The crew of the Edna have been landed in New York The master of the Winneconne picked uf the crew of the Hattie Dunn. Nothing further has been heard