The Washington herald., 1918-06-08
U-B0AT BOMBS
S.. VINLAND,
CREW SAFE
Norwegian Vessel Sinks Off
Virginia Coast on
June 5.
RIGID PATROL NOW
DANIELS BELIEVES
Half of Hun Submersibles
Built Sunk by Allied
Fleets.
GERMANY LAUNCHED 800
SINCE 1914, SAY EXPERTS
Department Refuses to Confirm
Report of Singing
of One.
RIGID PATROL NOW
DANIELS BELIEVES
GERMANY LAUNCHED 800
SINCE 1914, SAY EXPERTS

The Norwegian schooner Vim
land, I,In3 tors, was bombed and
sunk by a submarine about fifty
hvc miles off the coast OF Virginia
at'6 p. N. June ;, the Navy De
partmcnt announced last night,
The crew was landed at Cape May,
y. ].
Opposing views emanate from
government circles a. to whether
the German U-boats have left
American waters. Senator Swan
son. OF Virginia, vice chairman OF
the Senate Naval Affairs Commit
tee, following a conference with
officials IL the Navy Department,
gave ii as his view that the enemy
submarines have been droven from
the coasts and from the main
american shipping routes. This
view high officials at the Navy
Department later. declined to in
Gorsc. They were uonconmittal
and urged Caution against d toe
Optimistic attitude on the part Of
IL. public.
The Fuel Administration an
nouHcCd tha,, because OF the men
ace OF the U-boat>, it had sus-
pended al coastwiSc shipments Of
coal to New England.
Many T-BoaIs sunk.
E.tw.Cn =" and ~ p"r cent Of all
tn. submarines which Germany has
bUiIL sine, abe war be-aH have been
sunk by The allied ns.NitS-NmeTiCan.
British and French-Wds the infoTma-
tiOn taken back TO The Capitol by
Senator swanson. Fifty per cent is
the american estimate. ~ the British.
Vt tho denartment the more con-
seTvative estimate was translated int
the statement that approximately II
undersea bots hive been sent to the
bottom. Germany, according to this
CStnls- t. having built no more than
go submarines of all types. Forty
OF these she built Immediately attcr
the war opened. appropriating ideas
ssr'cn from the United States and
other nations.
Il required much argument o1 n.
part of Won Tirpitz, navy reports
state. to convince the German nd.
miraIty early in the war that the
s1-br1c rine could be made into ar
ecTc ctiye arm Of tho sea service.
Patrol Is Thorough.
Warning against over-Optimism
naval experts called attention to tn,
evidence thus far brought out in tn,
stories of American seamen held
prironers for n time on the su bma
Tiues. u at the U-bOat commanders
ar d IpinE themselves literally tC
supDIIrs from victimized vessels
and TO the boast Of the enemy com.
l.IanderS that IL would remain or
u j. siGa "f the Atlantic about a
month While ordinarily. the cruis.
iuE limits Of the newest Of the Ger.
lnsn undeTSea craft would limit then
10 stay "f approximately trU'
days. ability on Iuri .--+ -
supplies OF food and fuel oil from
captured ships would Gna.iI... ,Hgu
10 stay longer.
SecretsrT pnnieIs would not con-
nit himself 70 the belief that the en-
emy has withdrawn. but indicated III
wss confident that the coast was SC
well patroled now as to make further
raids Of wholesale character diff ,uIt
il not impossible.
Neither Senator Swanson nor tn
Navy Department would confirm th,
report sent out from Washington thii
afternoon that there was strong fsa.
son to believe one of the U-boats hat
been sunk