Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1918-07-22

tie grabbed an American flag and
shook it defiantly toward the u boat.
The lad was still clinging to the colors
held proudly above his head when he
landed on the beach.
The German commander either took
a long chance or had an exact chart of
the dangerous shoals and shifting sand
bars off the cape. 1t would be impos-
sible for him to submerge to any great
depth and the scene of his exploits was
not one in which undersea boats might
be expected to operate. Tonight he
was being hunted by patrol vessels and
other war craft.
NEW YORK. July 21-The tug
Perth Amboy was owned by the Lee
high Valley railroad and according to
estimates of marine men here, was
worth about 100000. The value of
the barges was estimated at approx
mately 100000.
Recent reports received here indi-
cate that the cost of torpedoes in Ger
many at this time is not less than SIS
900 each.
Big Crowd Witnesses Attack
OF the Al persons, including three
women and five children on board.
three .men-Captain Charles Ainslie of
| INC Vol sc IdilSlDIu, anu JOIln bOIONlCn
and John Wiz. Austrian members of
/ the tug crew, were wounded. Bolovich
probably Will lose an arm. Wiz had
one hand blown off. Captain Ainslie
was wounded in both arms by shrapnel
The attack was witnessed by large
crowds of natives and summer visitors
! who had flocked to the cape for the
weekend seeking relief from the heat
wave. All accounts agreed that the
submarines shooting was very bad
Her torpedo work was no better. Ac-
cordinS to Captain Ainslie she
launched three torpedoes at the tue
and all went wild. The attack oc-
Cured only few miles from the naval
aviation station at Chatham Three
seaplanes attacked the raider with
pomps. The fire was returned but the
U-boat submerged and was last seer
heading south.
Golfers Narrowly Escape
Tonight the tug was still afloat anf
II was thought she could be saved.
The natives of the cape could no
understand why she should waste SHELF
on fleet of barges returning to a Goa
port. Two Golfers, the Arlington an,
the j. b. King passed Orleans shortl,
before the Perth Amboy was fired upon
out both passed through the DANCE
. zone in safety.
captain }. H. Tapley, who was in hi
CABIN at the time, came out on deck ius
as the submarine doomed out of the fo
| pank, her deck gun flashing out it
t storm of steel. The bombardment So
| the tug on fire and the German turne
! his attention ii the helpless barges.
Shrapnel bursting over the Lans
Iord, second in the tow, struck dow
Captain Ainslie.
Women and Children Aboard
The crews with the three women. tn
1 five children and the three wounde
5 roWed ashore while naval hydro-a;r
planes came out, located the U-boa
IN the haze and engaged her unsuc
; cessfully. But the raider was given a
. example of the spirit his strang
c maneuver had aroused. When the {
! boat appeared out of the fog, littl
i Jack Ainslie, the 11-year-old son {
: Captain Ainslie of the Lansford sight
ed it. The boy ran to the cabin re
- turning with small American fla
Leaning over the rail- he waved tn
colors in defiance at the Germans. Eve
this impotent exhibition of patriotisl
. did not satisfy the lad. He shouted
his father that he was going to get h
gun, 20 calibre rifle, and return SON
Y of those shots which the raider we
firing. But Captain Ainsley restraine
n the boy. Shortly after this the capital
s was struck down as ne superintende
: the launching of the small boat.
n When the little flotilla of rowboat
G entered Nauset harbor, Jack Ainsl
s was sitting in the bow of the Lans
n fords skiff, holding the colors proud
: erect. He was given rousing chez
IS by the cottagers who rushed down IL
r beach to help the refugees ashore.
: Bathers Scurry to Shelter
: Bathers taking their morning d
: scurried ashore when shells splashe
$ within few hundred yards of Their
n Many of them watched the German e,
= hibition of frightfulness from Il
n beach. Automobiles stopped the
machines on the brow of the sand hill
and followed the Teutonic version
IF the war game play by play. Scores
+ the cottagers did not have to con
J. from their piazza chair to see evel
g detail of the latter drama.
Some of the people took the precal
- ton of going to cottagers which he
substantial cellars. From these the
watched the firing there ready to see
shelter should the German try h
craftsmanship on shore targets. SCI
eral residents reported shells fallir
on shore but none of these stori
could be verified. The nearest she
struck, so far as known, within OF
hundred yards of the beach in Mus
harbor.
Most of those on board the vesse
attacked and fishermen on sho
agreed that the submarine was 4