Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-27
fBv Associated Press. I

WASHINGTON, January 26.-The
a19 ,ns Tr, destroyer Jacob Jones. sunk
marine December 6. 1917, was torpedoed
by the U-53, the vessel which visited
Newport, r. l., in the summer of 1916,
and later harrled allied merchant ship
ping OFT the New England coast. This
fact was disclosed in the report of
!.ieutenants +. L. Muller and j. l..
fulcher. ~ 5. ~. who were captured
the cargo transport Ticonderoga, Sep
TENDER 80 1915, and released when
the German submarine lotilla was sur
rendered November "a. after they had
spent nearly two months on the sub
mersible in American waters and at
the German submarine base at Kiei.
The report. made public tonight by
the Navy Department. showed also that
the German officer commanding the u
SO when the Jones was torpedoed. Cap
tain Won Schrader. was aboard the
boat when it was at Newport. lie
there saw Lieutenant Commander David
Worth Bagley. a brother of the Wife
Oh aeoS oDsT o WIG SomanIsd
the captured American officers that he
recognized Bagiey in the dory or the
sinking DESTROYER; and sent out a wire
scene. note appended to the report.
presumably by Vice q imiral Sims, said
such a call was picked up at Queens
mystery.
TWO AMERICANS TAKEN
PRISONER BY CAPTAIN
The T-152, which after sinking tho
Ticonderoga and taking Muller and
can waters TO raid shipping, encoun-
tered the U53 on her way back TO Kiel
after all German submarines had been
recalled near the end of the war. Be
sides telling OF the destruction Of the
Jacob Jones. Captain Won Schradcr said
that six weeks earlier. in the Bristol
Channel. he had sunk an American
N
former coast guard cutter Tampa,
which went. down with all hands on
board. and had fired "a torpedo at the
Tampa was sunk lasf September %.
The two American officers, in their
report to Admiral Sims, told Il detailed
the C-i52 and OH the submarine mother
snip, kronprinz Heinrich, in Kici har-
Dor. They spoke also of their UNIQUE
experience in being the only Dasscn-
gers, so far as known. to have trav
elcd from Germany to Harwich, Eng
land, with the fiotilia of enemy sub
marines surrendered ~twO weeks after
the signing Of the armistice.
FORTY SHOTS OF \sIIRAPNEL
FIRED INTO TICONDI;toGA
The Ticonderoga, Which was going
to France with cargo Of railway
! ton to her naval crew, had fallen be
! hind her convoy IN misty weather
when fhc was attacked with shrapncl
shots. dcmolishinG the radio house
and killing four members OF the six
| inch gun crew before the cruiser CAL
weston hove in sight and drove the
enemy off. More than an hour later.
the U-lb2 reappearcd and pounded the
! 1'iconderoga with, forty more shots
! and fire rooma. The order 10 abandon
ship was given. hut a sheet hostcd
in the rigging as sign OF surrender
! according to the report, fulcher
waved a pillow slip from the deck"
! The captain Of the TRANSPORT had been
/ wounded a. had Fulchcr and Muller
FISH BARRELS OF ONIONS
FROM SHIPS WRECNAGIG
After the Ticonderoga went down
the U-l52 after FISHING out barrels
OF potatoes and onions" from the
and later Fulcher. Tho report said
that Captain Franz, OF the U-boat,
was under the impression that the
! after gun tof tho transporD had con-
,inued firing after the sheet had been
! hoistcd."
Many wounded men on RATS or in
the water pleaded With the Germans
them he had room for no more" and
cast them adrift.
Muller and i'ulcher made. no COM
submarine, which was outward bounn
from Kicl for the American coast on
her second trip. and which, continued
for allied shipping. First news Of tho
armistice negotiations came by radio
with the message engage men-of war
only. Tho merchant war is ended"
The Americana were told by tho Ger
man officers that this was tho first
G &c, Of Snr , nsW s9y M,M,,
orr NEWFOUNDLAND COAST
On OctDbsr ~, however, the C-l52
bnrk stinnder OF the Newfoundland