Norwich bulletin., 1918-06-04
German Sea Sneaks
 Faaed of Mission
HAD. BEENLuRkINe OFF PORTS
 TO GET TRANSPORTS
ADMISSION OF FAILURE

ion That the U-Boat Commanders
 Rendered Furious By Failure to Get
 Troop. or Supply Ships, Decided to |
 Attack DeFenseless Coasters.
 Washington, June S.-Germany at laSt thlS brought her submarine war Iare> to the shores of the United States, apparently in a forlorn hope of strik- 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 dea.h.
 m the attacks on coasting vessels q most in sight of the New Jersey shore reported today, navy officials see a frantic admission from Berlin that the submarine has failed. Ameri- can armed power is rolling. overseas in ever-increasing force, despite the utmost eXertions of the underseas pi- rates off the coast of Europe.
 Were Sent to Sink Transports.
 Now the raiders have crossed the seas and lurl1ed for days near Amer ica's greatest ports. They no doubt were sent to sink transports, but here again they failed. Blocked off the troopships by convoy craft, they have turned in fury against defenceless coasters. In all the record of destruc- ton they have written, the raiding party has struck at no vessels bound overseas and therefore armed for a hSht. Only ships that could not hit oil | one of half score of vessels probably sent to the bottom that had any real Emlltary value in ship or cargo was an oil tanker
 Fate of Carolina Still Unknown. Up to a late hour tonight the de- struction of five sailing craft and the ! tanker Herbert L. Pratt, was the rec ord of losses officially reported to the navy department. The fate of the l coastwise liner California, which re- ported fty wireless yesterday that she l was being shelled, still was unknown. The fcrews of some of the craft de- ] stroyed Lave been brought into port 1 with a story of eleven days imprison- ment aboard an enemy submarine. ! Scores of Troop Ships Passed.
 / During that period scores of troops 4 and supply ships have passed in and lout OF the business of crushing the 4 German army in France The 5U-heat found nc, weak link in, the chain of tht armed craft that guarded them.
 Secretary -Daliels went to the ca Di. 1 toi during the day to tell members e ] the house naval committee that tht fraid was dea gneds to frighten tht
 American people into demanding the
 return of war vessels from the othel
 slde. He gave assurance that con. gress need have no apprehension as tt
 protection of the American coast, an, that there will be no recall of force
 from the war zone
 Statement by Secretary Daniels.
 Tonight Mir Daniels summarized tn information reaching the departmen : as follows: Navy department records show tn following vessels have been sunk, Ja , cob M. Haskell, schooner, 1862 tons hailing from Boston, sailing for Nor folk, II in crew, no passengers. Isabe B. Wiley. in ballast, net tonnage 611 crew 8. Hattie Dunn, of RockEand Me net tonnage 365. in ballast, sailing fc
 Charleston. Edward H. Cole, of Bos
 ton, tonnage 1895, in ballast boun for Norfolk. Crew H.
 Herbert L. Pratt, steamship o ] tanker; sunk about five miles sout
 of Overfalls light ship, off the Dela
 ware coast; 3S on board, 37 of tn g crew rescued and landed at Lewes. A = the crews of the above named vesse = were rescued.
 X / Schooner Found Bottom Side Up. Tt appears that the schooner Edn
 which was found bottom side up se1
 eral days ago and lowed into Lewe
 Del, also was a victim of the subms Urine The crew of the Edna haN s been landed in New York
 The master of the Winneconnie picl if ed up the crew of the Hattie Dunn.
 Seapianes and Patrol Fleet Active. Il Meanwhile, departmental repor - from naval districts along the who l. Atlantic coast showed feverish activi el among the patrol fleet From all aaor ,r the coast armed craft are converglr e on the spot where the enemy was Ia e reported. Zepplins are patrolling u
 air seeking any trace. Every era
 has orders to fire on sight at any su
 picious object. Already they ha' . pounded floating wreckage with shel ?. in search of the foe, leading to repor of battles at sea from various point 't Persistent reports that one of t
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 and the other captured were in circ, of lation nearly all day. The depar n ment had nothing to confirm them. tt Little Evidence of Excitement. re Around the war. and navy depar ei ments there was little evidence of e I. citement. Orders flashed out by A Es miral Benson late yesterday, when t 5 first information of the appearance LII the enemy came already had set eve
 agency for protection of the coast
 motion. There was little to do
 transmit to the district commando s all information that was received.
 first, as the reports of sinkings beg a coming in, there was, talk of U-bo
 fleets attempting to block every el
 barkation port to prevent Americ r. endorsements from reaching the bs m tie front As the tale of sinkings u a folded, however, it became probal O. that not more than one or two raide en were at work, and that the operatio he for yesterday and today were confin
 to narrow zone of the New ,Jers h. shore Later came the landing of [ rs men held prisoner for days on the ie boats and confirmation of obviouG I
 mors that three derelict schoont
 picked up off the Virginia capes nea
 ly a week ago, had been wrecked - an enemy submarine. That disclos -D tthe fact that the enemy had been lur ,., ing sixty or seventy miles of the co; 'H for probably two weeks at least, he
 ing for a chance at troop ship. Its Motor Boat Lost in Heavy Sea. 35 Washington, June S.-Loss of 1 ( lat n1o y-Ir h r