Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-01-27
U-5S'S EXPLOITS
IN WAR TOLD IN
NAVAL REPORT
U. S. Destroyer Jacob Jones
Sunk by Submarine Which
Visited Newport in 1916
and Raided Shipping.

can destroyer JaCuu yuilNa sum Va
the Irish coast by German sub
marine December 6, 1917, was tor
pedoed bv the U-53, the vessel which
visited Newport, K. l., in the summer
OF 1910. and later harried allied mer-
chant shipping of the New England
coast. This fact was disclosed IN
the report OF Lieutenents F. L. Null
Ter and ]. II. Fulcher, u. 5. NJ, who
were captured by the submarine u
1s2. which sank the cargo transport
Ticonderoga, September 50, 1918 and
released when the German submar-
inc flotilla was surrendered Noven-
Der "A. after they had spent nearly
two months on the submersible IN
American waters. and at the sub
marine base at Kiel.
The report, made public tonight
BY the Navy department, showed
also that the German officer COM
handing the U-53 when the Jones
was destroyed, Captain Won Schra-
der, was aboard the boat when it
was at Newport He there saw
Lieut.. Commander David Worth
Bagley, a brother of the wife OF
Secretary Daniels, who commanded
the Jacob Jones. Won Schrader
told the captured American officers
that he had recognized Bagley in
the dory of the sinking vessel and
sent out a wireless call for aid be-
fore leaving the scene. A note APP
pended to the report, presumably
by Vice Admiral Sims, said such
call was picked up at Queenstown,
but that its origin had been mys-
icry.
Sank Ship In British Channel.
The U-l52, which after sinking
theTicondSToga and taking Muller
and Fulcher aboard, continued to
American waters to raid shipping,
encountered the U-53 on her way
back to Kiel after all German sub
marines had been recalled near the
end Of the war. Besides telling Of
the destruction Of the Jacob Jones,
Captain Won Schrader said that six
weeks earlier in the Bristol channel
he had sunk an American escort
ship believed to have been the form
er coast guard cutter, Tampa, which
went down with all hands on board,
and had fired a torpedo at the
American scout cruiser, Chester.
The Tampa was sunk September 20
aud the Navy department. said there
was no evidence that the U-53 was
in that vicinity. The Chester was
not hit.
The Ticonderoga, which was 60
ing to France with a cargo OF rail-
way cars and ll3 army personnel i'll
ADDITION to her naval crew, had fall
en- behind her convoy in misty
weather when she was attacked with
shrapnel fire by the U-l52 which
fred, 40 shots, dcmolishing the radio
house and killing four members of
the six-inch gun crew before the
cruiser Galveston hove in sight and
drove the enemy off. More than an
hout later, the U-152 reappeared and
pounded the Ticonderoga with 40
more shots which finally reached the
engine and fire rooms. The order to
abandon ship was given. but a sheet
Aoisted in the rigging as sign OF
surrender was not Needed, BY the
submarine, and. according TO the re-
port. Fulcher waved a pillow slip
from the deck. The captain of
the transport had been wounded as
had Fulcher and Muller. Tie execu-
live officer and Butcher, who was
The first assistant engineer agreed
there was nothing to do but surrend-
cr as pany OF the men aboard had
been killed.
Wounded Men Cast Adrift.
After the Ticonderoga went down
the U-l52, after fishing out barrels
81 potatoes and onions" from the
iloating wreckage, picked up Muller,
who was taken for the commander
of the ship, and later Fulcher The
report said that Captain Franz of
the U-boat was under the impress
sion that the after-gun (of the trans
portl had continued firing after the
sheet had been hoisted.
Many wounded men on RATS or in
the water pleaded with the Germans
to BIZ taken aboard as they had no
food or. water or chance of life it
left to their fate, but Franz told
them he had room for no more"
and cast them adrift.
Muller and Falcher make no COM
plant Of their treatment aboard the
submarine, which was outward
bound from Kiei, for the American
coast on her second trip, and which
continued into the gulf stream on the
lookout for allied shipping. First
news OF the armistiee negotiations
came by radio with the message
Engage men-of-war only The mer-
chant war is ended" The Ameri7
cans were told by the German Off
GERS that this was THE first act of
our new government"
On October II, however, the
U-is2 encountered and sank the
Norwegian bark Stihnder off the
Newfoundland coast, leaving the
crew in their boats 1000 miles from
land. III
Two days later an unarmed ship
was fred at, but a cruiser or de
stroyer drove the U-boat under and
dropped depth bombs. Several duels
with armed ships occurred later, the
results Of which the prisoners dill
not learn, and on October 20 came
a radio order, "All submarines re-
t,f... - K;ni - ,.btrh yfas ohaved
Pleased Over Armistice.
II was not until November1l that
the U-ls2 reached the North Sea
nine barrage, through which il
passed on the surface The follow
ing day Captain Franz announced
that the armistice had been signed
and the war was over.
"All hands seemed pleased" the
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