Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-06
10 U-BOATS SUNK
BY NAVAL AIRCRAFT
Encounters Described as Thrilling
But They Were Brief and
Decisive.
ny Associated Press to Every Evening


F.! London. April g. Details concerning
| the recent destruction Of ten submarines
| by naval aircraft. eight hy scapanes end
| the others by dirigfle', have been oh
| tanned hy the Associated Press from
Admiralty reports. The first ease IL des-
cribcd ~ follows
"N hllc on patrol IN the English Chan
mel n seapanc sighted "A submarine eight
miles away, directly III the path of an
oncuining convoy of merchant ships The
scaplane divcd at eighty miles an hour
The submarine attempted tn escape by
submerpinE, but was just awash the
seaplane reached q bombing position and
released two bombs. one of which exploded
on the coming tower The scaplane drop
ped two more bombs into the collapsed
submarine, which WAS OF the largest type,
carrying two guns.
PHOTOGRAPHED SINKING sub
The second case
"At dawn a scnplane sighted large
submarine ON the surface with member
nf tho crew standing by the gun. The
srarlanc dropped bomb on the tail Of the
t-boat aud afterwards photographed the
sinking submarine. with a big hole IN its
deck sccond bomb was dropped close to
thc submarine 5 how. and the thoat col
l:I,scd
The third cnsc
The scaplancs attacked a large sub
marine travelling on the surface at II
knots with two men IN tho coming tower
\ bomb WAS exploded close "a the coming
tower and the submarine began Ia sink
stern first bomb from 4 second sea
plane completed the work
TWO HOMES SIM uoAT ro nurTon
The fourth ease
Three patrol llanrs ~ghtcd a large
submarine Is II w.Gs srlbmctcinp and drop
ped two bombs Close to he coming tower
causing the -u',marno Go turn turtle hnd
disappear IN q mass of oil and MrcctPgr
The fifth case \ scaplane sighted two
silhmArlnc@ clos" to the surface and
dropped tWo bombs cine bomb Na~
ineffective. but the other hit the deck
falr' amIdship- The submarine WIS
hidden hv She smoke 81 the explosion
.,;d when the srn"kr clcarc, the -ho"t
uas sinking. with both ends IN the a'r'
ttrGur RED HANDED sSn SUM
Tl,r ,iNth cR>e scaplnno saw The
trark ol "a tsrpc,!n bred ii 81 mcrchaurmau
Il diNcd toward thr surface aud sighted
the black shades oi the submarine VOL
below tho surface II droprcd two bonnie
Wh,h both exploited lose I" the subIna-
r,. uflup IA "a large QIanttN of ot,
bundles and wrcckaRc
Tho seventh case Tive ~capaue> ~Ighi
ed q | boat ON hc surface and dropped q
bomb each The hrsr bomb caused
heavy list to the boat which bcgan
10 sink hv he stern The second bomb
exploded IN the center II the swirl dc.
mo|l>hing the l'-boat
The eighth case sCaplanc dropped
q bomb on u submarine Just emerging
and the boat disappeared with heavy
list 10 port The pilot dropped second
bomb INTO the swirl and few iuutcs
later . patch Of oil $50 feet long and II
feet Wide appeared on the surface
rrRiut~ HtruUpFn mn
The ninth c,4-, "A naval alr~hip st
niddsN sighted a suspicious patch OF OIL
and cIrclcd II IN an effort IL ascertain the
cause Suddenly pcFiSCopc broke the
surface IN the midst of the oil The AIR
ship dropped 8 bomb close Ia the pcrischpc
AMI a series a. bubbles began appearing
indicating that the damaged submarine
Was moving slowly AWAY under the water
Several more bombs were dropped i'm the
path indicated until satisfactory cvitlcncc /
VA, obtained of the enemy destruction
The tenth case An aIrShIp dropped
two bombs over a ~llbmarnc which Was
engaged III attacking merchantmen Great
patches oi ml and bubbles Indicated
severe damage. and trawlcr> made tins
complete by depth charges