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Three Loaded Life Boats Sighted.

Three lifeboats filled with persons,
and other lfGboats, apparently empty,
were seen atloat thirty-tive miles off
Beach Haven, n. j., by a government
airplane Coastguard cutters have
gone to the rescue Beach Haven is
about twenty miles south of Barne
gat, n J.
Officers of the naval intelligence
bureau were understood to be trying
to confirm reports that an engagement
took place between American destroy
ers and a German submarine off the
Virginia coast.
At least one large merchant steam
ship gave battle to German subma-
rine off the coast of New Jersey, az
cOrding to members of the crew
the schooner E.dxSaRe-Ns-9e4e %
The submarine was the victor in this
hght, and later the same UbOat de-
gtroyed another big steamship. after
several hours of firing, in the same
vicinity
For twenty-four hours prior to the
Coles destruction at four P. NJ. on
Sunday, when seventy-five miles off
Highland light, \. j., the crew saw
an unusual amount of wreckage. The
sea from this point to the shore also
was filled with wreckage, the rescued
crew reported
The submarine which sank the Cole,
the crew said, was the largest they had
rrin fnrn ord
aft, and was 250 feet long. -
The attack on fhe Carolina became
known when word was received that
an O S call for help had come from
it. Its wireless message, picked up
by naval vessels, stated that O subma-
rine was Smelling the vessel and that
the 220 passengers had taken TO the
boats. Help was Immediately sent.
The Carolina carried a crew of 120.
OF the crews on the schoOners, only
that of the Edward H. Cole Is known
to be safe The men have reached
New York and told their story. Naval
vessels, it is known, have not only
the sea for the enemy.
Coast guards at all stations have
been notified to watch for shipwrecked
men.
e. b. Samuelson. of the Coles crew,
and Robert Lathigie, first mate, tell
Ing the story of the Coles destruction,
paid a tribute to H c. Newcomb, their
captain, Of Boston, for his intrepidity
at the moment when an opportunity
came for the Coles crew, eleven in
number, 20 be rescued by the Ameri-
can collier Bristol
The Bristol, Captain Frederick Hart,
sighted the Coles crew In one open
boat, with one pair Of oars, a sextant
and a weather glass, steering by star
light, after setting her course by the
sun, trying to reach shore, nearly five
hours after their vessel was sunk, at
four P NJ
Stopped to Rescue Crew
The Bristol, coming alongside the
Coles crew, had not noticed the sub
comb, of the Cole. saH to Captain,
Hart, of the Bristol: Don't stop to
pick us up Beat it quick or that sub
marine will get YOU The U-hoat
meanwhile was moving toward I'll"
Bristol, but Captain Hart declined Ia
depart with ont first reScuing the
Coles crew. Six of the latter, tOgeth
er with the nine tlremen on the Bristol
went to> the BristOl's tirer0om and coal
holds, and for the first time in its
voyaging, the Bristol is said to have
made seventeen knots an hour as com
pared with her normal nine knots
The Bristol escaped by reaching shall
low water, into which the U-boat could
not 60.
Samuelson said that prior to the ap-
pearance of the U-boat about four P.
NJ Sunday, the crew had observed so
much floating wreckage that he was
Whooping Cough.
In this disease it is important that
the cough be kept loose and expecto-
ration easy, which can be done by
giving Champerlain' Cough Rene
dy. Mrs. P. H. Martin, Peru, Ind,
writes, MY two daughters had
whooping cough. l gave them Cham
berlain's Cough Remedy and it