Meade County news., 1918-06-20

as known, was lifeboat shelled, and
in all cases reported the crews were
given opportunity to escape or were
taken aboard the submarine, where
some of them were kept prisoner for
eight days before they were turned
adrift to be picked up by a passing
vessel.
Warshlps on the Job.
Scores Of United States warships
are ranging the waters off the North
Atlantic Coast in search of the sub
marines.
The crew Of the Haskell is report
cd to have been saved but nothing is
known of the fate Of the three other
crews.
The Savannah line steamship City
of Columbus is reported to have been
sunk. but no definite news of her fate
has been received.
Forty-eight survivors of vessels
sunk by the U-boats, brought to this
port by coastwise steamship, were
landed. About half of them had been
prisoners for several days aboard the
submarines.
Held Prisoners on U.Boat.
The survivors were from the steam
ship Winnie Connie and the schooners
Hauppaug, the Isabel B. Wiley, the
Hattie Dunn and the Edna. Twelve
more survivors Of the schooners
Hauppaug and Isabel B. Wiley, who
were making for shore in a motor
yawl at night, are believed to have
landed somewhere further down the
coast.
A government aviator in a hydro
airplane that alighted near Beach
Haven, N. j., reported that thirty-five
miles off shore he had sighted three
lifeboats filled with persons pulling
slowly toward the coast and had seen
other lifeboats floating about empty.
The Atlantic Refining Company
tanker Herbert L. Pratt was sunk four
miles off Cape Henlopen, Del. The
crew was landed at Lewes, Del
No Transports Attacked.
1t was learned authoritatively that
no attacks have been made on Ameri-
can transports off the American
Coast. All ships were held in ports
along the coast, as precaution.
There also were unconfirmed re-
ports of fifteen vessels had fallen
prey to the raiders, but there was no
verification. There also were con-
firmed reports of battles between war
ships and. submarines.
Fear was felt for the fate of the $50
persons aboard the Carolina, vessel
of 5000 tons, running between Porto
Rico and an Atlantic port.
An s. o. S. call sent by the steam
ship at o'clock at night said she was
being shelled by German submarine
and that passengers and crew had
taken to the boats. Officers of the
company assume she was sunk, but
have no definite information to that
effect. They place her position at the
time she was attacked at from 125 to
$50 miles southeast of Sandy Hook.
The navy threw veil Of war time
secrecy about the steps 1t was taking
to counteract the menace OF the sea
pirates, but Secretary Daniele made
the confident announcement that
measures had been taken to meet the
danger to shipping.
While the details Of naval opera
tions were withheld, it is known that
destroyers, fleets Of submarine
chasers and other vessels are flash
ing their searchlights over the waters
along the coast and far out at sea
from Main to Florida.
Hydroairplanes and airplanes arose
like flocks Of huge birds from every
naval station along the Atlantic Coast
when the warning was flashed to
them and soon were scouting over the
waters where 1t was believed subma-
rines would be most likely to be lurk-
ing. Foreign aviators and American
students as well as the regular Ameri-
can fliers, eagerly volunteered for SER
vice.
Raid Forlorn Hope.